ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,030, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for treating a feed before a quench column" was invented by Matti Nieminen (Vtt, Finland) and Christer Tolergard (Vtt, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a process arrangement for treating a feed before a quench column in an integrated process, in which the integrated process comprises at least one gasifier for forming a gasifier flow, at least one cracking furnace for forming a cracker flow, at least one quench column for treating the feed comprising the gasifier flow and cracker flow and at least one tr...