US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 26 for "Adaptive repressurizer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,026, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Adaptive repressurizer" was invented by John David Broyles (Houston), Jinhong Chen (Katy, Texas), Stacey M. Althaus (Houston) and Jewel Duncan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering a source gas at a specific pressure uses an adaptive repressurizer system including a series of valves configured to control flow circuit connections within the adaptive repressurizer system. The method includes disposing a gas container containing the source gas within the system. The method includes connecting the gas container; connecting ...