US Patent Issued to ACULON on Sept. 23 for "Surface-treated gravel pack screens and methods of reducing deposition of a contaminant on a surface of a gravel pack screen" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,335, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ACULON INC. (San Diego).

"Surface-treated gravel pack screens and methods of reducing deposition of a contaminant on a surface of a gravel pack screen" was invented by Eric L. Hanson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Eric L. Bruner (La Jolla, Calif.), Majid Monji (San Diego), Elizabeth Cambre (Texas City, Texas) and Edward Hughes (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides treated gravel pack screens comprising a metal surface and a hydrophobic surface layer applied thereto, directly or through an intermediate layer. The surface layer comprises a self-assembled monolayer prepar...