US Patent Issued to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Relating to thermocouples for tubular reactors" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,414, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Relating to thermocouples for tubular reactors" was invented by Jay Simon Clarkson (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain), Henry Arthur Claxton (London), Andrew Lewis Dyer (London) and Benjamin Geoffrey Mallam (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing a thermocouple in a reactor tube of a tubular reactor, comprising lowering a weighted tow line through a stack of catalyst carriers and using a tow line to pull the thermocouple down the reactor tube through inner channels of the stack of catalyst carriers ...