US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIAS-UFG on June 16 for "Portable system for determining monoethylene glycol" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,314, issued on June 16, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIAS-UFG (Goiania-Go, Brazil).

"Portable system for determining monoethylene glycol" was invented by Kariolanda Cristina De Andrade Rezende (Goiania, Brazil), Wendell Karlos Tomazelli Coltro (Goiania, Brazil) and Iris Medeiros Junior (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable system includes an electrochemical cell for batch injection analysis (BIA) coupled to a copper oxide electrode for the selective determination and quantification of monoethylene glycol (MEG) from different petroc...