ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,865, issued on Oct. 21.
"Method for temporary closure of perforation tunnels" was invented by Steve Richard Wehrenberg Jr. (Mustang, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and process for temporarily plugging wellbore conductivity using a forced injection of an encapsulated reactive metal having a polymeric coating into perforation tunnels of a target existing wellbore and a second injection under pressure of a swelling elastomeric compound to seal perforated tunnels in a producing wellbore to prevent or minimize frac-hit or frac-bashing to adjacent intersecting wellbores and fracture networks, until such predetermined time as...