ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,211, issued on July 7, was assigned to Suncor Energy Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"System, method, and medium for end to end NMR based crude plant optimization" was invented by Shashikant Mistry (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada) and Nathaniel Peters (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems, methods, and processor-readable media for optimizing the end to end operation of a hydrocarbon processing system using NMR spectroscopy data. The hydrocarbon processing system is configured to process hydrocarbon feedstock material, via a configuration defined by a set of configuration parameters, such that one or more fina...