ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,810, issued on March 24, was assigned to SOLUGEN INC. (Houston).
"Trickle bed reactor" was invented by Sean Hunt (Houston), Kevin Loftis (Bulverde, Texas), Peter Nguyen (Saugus, Calif.) and Parth Patel (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trickle bed reactor, comprising a plurality of catalyst beds connected in series and progressively increasing in catalyst mass in a direction from upstream to downstream; and a plurality of heat exchangers, wherein each of the heat exchangers is located between two of the plurality of catalyst beds, and wherein each of the heat exchangers does not exchange heat with an outer su...