US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on Oct. 27 for "Methods and systems for inline mixing of hydrocarbon liquids" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,293, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for inline mixing of hydrocarbon liquids" was invented by Kyle E. Miller (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems and methods of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline. According to an embodiment, a method of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof includes determining a ratio of a second fluid flow to a first fluid flow based on signals received from a tank flow meter in fluid com...