ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,384, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for controlling hydrogen sulfide and ammonia flow rates" was invented by Cameron Kardel (Chicago), Donald Eizenga (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), James W. Harris (Palatine, Ill.), Jan De Ren (Bracknell, Great Britain), Zudtky Wisecarver (Des Plaines, Ill.), Alexander Green (Palatine, Ill.), William J. Whyman (Collinsville, Okla.) and Ian Clarke (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control process and apparatus provide feed forward control of stoichiometric proportions of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia to a thermal oxidizer and an ammonia scrubber, r...