MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202418039062 A) filed by United Color Manufacturing, Inc. on May 18, 2024, for A Method Of Identifying Marked Hydrocarbon Fluids.
Inventors include Hinton, Michael, P.; and Frederico, Justin, J..
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: A method of identifying marked hydrocarbon fluids that have been laundered, wherein unlaundered marked hydrocarbon fluids contain a gas chromatography marker and a spectroscopic marker, the gas chromatography marker including a pyn-olidinone, the method compnsmg: a) introducing a first portion of a hydrocarbon fluid sample that is suspected of having been laundered into a gas chromatography system, thereby resulting in a gas chromatography report of the hydrocarbon fluid sample; b) spectroscopically analyzing a second portion of the hydrocarbon fluid sample, thereby resulting in a spectroscopic report of the hydrocarbon fluid sample; c) identifying the presence or absence of the gas chromatography marker using the gas chromatography repolt and identifying the presence or absence of the spectroscopic marker using the spectroscopic report; and d) based on the identifying of step c): if the gas chromatography marker and the spectroscopic marker are identified as present, then indicating that the hydrocarbon fluid sample is marked and unlaundered; if the gas chromatography marker is identified as present and the spectroscopic marker is identified as absent, then indicating that the hydrocarbon fluid sample is marked and laundered; and if the gas chromatography marker and the spectroscopic marker are identified as absent, then indicating the hydrocarbon fluid is unmarked.
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