Intellectual Property
Summary of Intellectual Property
Conversion Gas Imports, L.P. ("CGI") is the owner of the following U.S. Patents:
5,511,905; 6,739,140; 6,813,893; 6,880,348; 6,848,502, 6,945,055, 7,036,325
CGI also has other U.S. and foreign patents pending. Copies of the issued patents are posted on the CGI website, www.conversiongas.com. These patents protect unique designs for a LNG receiving terminal using salt cavern storage. The LNG may come direct from a ship or from a conventional storage tank; the LNG receiving terminal may be located onshore or offshore. These patents also protect novel methods for warming LNG and storage in compensated or uncompensated salt caverns, which is referred to as the Bishop Process™. Some of the patents also protect unique pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger designs. One embodiment of the LNG receiving terminal uses multiple salt caverns for blending of gas from different sources to achieve a pipeline standard Btu content.
The aforementioned patents define the scope of protection for the CGI inventions and this summary is not intended to substitute for a thorough reading of the claims.
Specific questions may be addressed to the Intellectual Property counsel for CGI:
Lawrence E. Evans
Phone: 800.874.7806
Email: