ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,452, issued on July 28, was assigned to PetroChina Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Integrated process and system for measurement and treatment of toxic gases in deep natural gas" was invented by Guangyou Zhu (Beijing), Zhiyong Chen (Beijing), Meng Wang (Beijing) and Tingting Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated process and system for measurement and treatment of toxic gases in deep natural gas. The process comprises: cooling and depressurizing deep natural gas and then drying same; sequentially performing radon, hydrogen sulfide, and mercury measurements on the dried deep natural gas; if it is found after the measurements th...