ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,974, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method for obtaining one or more air products, and air fractionation plant" was invented by Daniel Palaniswamy Otte (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining one or more air products, in which method an air fractionation plant is used which has a column system with a pressure column wherein air is fed to the column system and is fractionated in the column system, wherein at least 90% of the total amount of air supplied to the column system is compressed wherein nitrogen-rich gas is extracted from the pressure column, and wherein, at...