ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,232, issued on June 3, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).
"Controlled deployment of shape-memory articles using emulsified fluids" was invented by Aaron C. Hammer (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing a downhole device includes introducing a downhole device into a wellbore, the downhole device having a shape-memory article, the shape-memory article including a shape-memory polymer, wherein the downhole device is disposed when the shape-memory article is in a compacted shape; exposing the shape-memory article to a deployment emulsion containing an activation fluid emulsified in a no...