US Patent Issued on Feb. 18 for "Methods of constructing a geothermal heat exchanger in a geothermal reservoir, and geothermal heat exchangers constructed in a geothermal reservoir" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,111, issued on Feb. 18.

"Methods of constructing a geothermal heat exchanger in a geothermal reservoir, and geothermal heat exchangers constructed in a geothermal reservoir" was invented by Babak Bob Arefi (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of constructing a geothermal heat exchanger comprised of a geothermal well(s) that maximizes heat transfer from sweet spots of geothermal energy of a geothermal reservoir to the geothermal well(s). The method involves dynamically identifying the sweet spots, and selecting a predetermined shape and/or increasing a dimension of the geothermal well(s) within the sweet ...