ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,803, issued on June 30, was assigned to PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY INC. (Danbury, Conn.).
"High recovery process for purification of multicomponent gases" was invented by Luke J. Coleman (The Woodlands, Texas), Garrett R. Swindlehurst (Saint Paul, Minn.), Katie Held (Hamburg, N.Y.), Kihyung Kim (Atlanta) and Werner Leitmayr (Neuburg an der Donau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The process of the present invention provides high recovery and low capital cost giving it an economic advantage over previously known purification processes. The present process has particular applicability to the purification of synthesis gases comprising at ...