ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,607, issued on May 26, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Processes and apparatuses for reducing molecular weight fluctuation in a tail gas stream from a pressure swing adsorption process" was invented by Anh Ngo (Carol Stream, Ill.), Shubhra J. Bhadra (Naperville, Ill.), Garrett Lukin (Seatlle, Wash.), William Cady (Chicago) and Nasser Khazeni (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatuses for reducing molecular weight fluctuation in a tail gas stream from a pressure swing adsorption process. Multiple PSA separation zone are synchronized such that when one of the PSA units is generating a...