US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on April 14 for "Systems, analyzers, controllers, and associated methods to enhance fluid separation for distillation operations" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,848, issued on April 14, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Systems, analyzers, controllers, and associated methods to enhance fluid separation for distillation operations" was invented by Chris A. Harrison (Findlay, Ohio), Vidyashankar Kuppuraj (Findlay, Ohio), Joseph John Boyce (Findlay, Ohio), Jeffrey A Sexton (Findlay, Ohio), Scott Christopher Flanagan (Findlay, Ohio) and Roy Roger Bledsoe Jr. (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for enhancing control of a distillation operation are disclosed. The method includes obtaining data for a plurality of ongoing and co...