ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,622, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sentinel Subsea Ltd. (Elgin, Great Britain).
"Fluid diverter" was invented by Neil Gordon (Elgin, Great Britain) and Andrew Jaffrey (Elgin, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring the integrity of a subsea well or a fluid sequestration site by detecting the presence of a first predetermined chemical in a volume of fluid being released at a flow rate in excess of a threshold value is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus detects the presence of a predetermined chemical in a volume of fluid only when the flow rate of the fluid exceeds a threshold value. Restr...