ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,826, issued on June 10.

"High-flow-conductivity proppant and preparation method thereof" was invented by Dezhi Zeng (Chengdu, China), Chengxiu Yu (Chengdu, China), Hanwen Zhang (Chengdu, China), Xi Wang (Chengdu, China), Jiancheng Luo (Chengdu, China), Chunyan Zheng (Chengdu, China), Ruikang Ke (Chengdu, China), Huan Xiao (Chengdu, China) and Gang Tian (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure belongs to the technical field of well completion engineering in oil and gas engineering, and particularly relates to a high-flow-conductivity proppant and its preparation method. The high-flow-conductivity proppant includes...