ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,712, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
"Automated method for optimizing adjustment factors of flow models" was invented by Tobias Rudolfo Gessner (Vitoria, Brazil) and Livia Fulchignoni De Paiva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention consists of a method of automatic adjustment of multiphase flow models using the principle of least squares in the correction of the systematic error of simulated pressure drop and temperature drop values. This has been implemented and automated in the form of a computational algorithm and applied in the...