US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Encapsulation of oilfield chemicals for on-demand triggered release" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,561, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Encapsulation of oilfield chemicals for on-demand triggered release" was invented by Oleg Mazyar (Katy, Texas), Rostyslav Dolog (Houston) and Radhika Suresh (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disintegrable oilfield chemical composite includes a core containing an oilfield chemical and a disintegrating agent containing at least one of a phase change material or a gas-producing material; and a shell encapsulating the core. A method includes introducing into a subsurface formation a treatment fluid including the disintegrable oilfie...