US Patent Issued to Linde on Nov. 3 for "Cryogenic air rectification system, control unit, air separation unit and method of cryogenically separating air" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,046, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Cryogenic air rectification system, control unit, air separation unit and method of cryogenically separating air" was invented by Harald Klein (Munich), Michael Siebel (Pullach, Germany), Dimitri Golubev (Pullach, Germany), Bernd Wunderlich (Pullach, Germany), Martin Pottmann (Pullach, Germany) and Robert Kender (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryogenic air rectification system comprising a high pressure column, a low pressure column and an argon removal unit coupled to a condenser evaporator, wherein the system is configured to pass gas from a p...