ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,910, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Device for monitoring foam volume, flow pattern, and pressure drop in foam drainage gas recovery" was invented by Jie Sun (Chengdu, China), Ziqiang Wang (Chengdu, China), Jiaqiang Jing (Chengdu, China), Yufan Yang (Chengdu, China), Wen Zhang (Chengdu, China), Chengxuan Wu (Chengdu, China), Qiuyue Wang (Chengdu, China) and Yongzhen Feng (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring foam volume, flow pattern, and pressure drop in foam drainage gas recovery includes a foam storage tank, a screw pump, valves, a gas tank, a s...