ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,584, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Praxair Technology Inc. (Danbury, Conn.) and Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"System and method for pre-purification of a feed gas stream" was invented by Ralph J. Mancini (Danbury, Conn.), Cem E. Celik (Grand Island, N.Y.), Arthur C. Selover (Town of Tonawanda, N.Y.), Sesha Hari Vemuri (Tonawanda, N.Y.), Thomas A. McNamara (East Amherst, N.Y.), Matthias Grahl (Munich) and Helko Schneider (Wolfratshausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of pre-purification of a feed gas stream is provided that is particularly suitable for pre-purification of a feed air stream in cryogeni...