ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,087, issued on June 23, was assigned to TapcoEnpro LLC (Channelview, Texas).

"Systems and methods for purging an isolation valve with a liquid purge medium" was invented by Filiberto Jimenez (Channelview, Texas) and Kenneth Krause (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for purging a bottom slurry circuit isolation valve using hydrocarbons."

The patent was filed on Dec. 25, 2023, under Application No. 18/395,692.

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