ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,008, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sensia Netherlands B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
"Systems and methods of prediction and management of scaling on components" was invented by Albert Hoefel (Sugar Land, Texas), Jonathan Chong (Calgary, Canada) and Garud Sridhar (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provided herein relate to a well site or other plant. Systems and methods are employed to determine fouling and/or reduce maintenance and down time associated with equipment that is subject to fouling conditions due to their operating environments in some embodiments. Fouling can include but is not limited to sca...