US Patent Issued to John Zink on July 14 for "Staged gas injection system" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,696, issued on July 14, was assigned to John Zink Co. LLC.

"Staged gas injection system" was invented by Wesley Ryan Bussman (Tulsa, Okla.), James Charles Franklin (Tulsa, Okla.), Dennis Lee Knott (Tulsa, Okla.) and Jeff William White (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staged gas injection system for a flare tip that can discharge waste gas into a combustion zone is provided. The staged gas injection system includes, for example, a first gas injection assembly and a second stage gas injection assembly. The first gas injection assembly is configured to inject a gas (for example steam or a gas other than steam) at a high fl...