US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 11 for "Coalescer plate with phyllotaxis-derived pattern" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,938, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Coalescer plate with phyllotaxis-derived pattern" was invented by Olanrewaju Malcolm Oshinowo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fahad Saleh Alrashed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coalescer plates, coalescer plate units, and coalescers, are provided. An exemplary embodiment provides a coalescer plate for separating a mixture of immiscible fluids. The coalescer plate comprises a pattern of wetting and non-wetting regions, wherein the pattern is based, at least in part, on phyllotaxis."

The patent was filed on March 28, 2023, under...