US Patent Issued to CARBO CERAMICS on Sept. 30 for "Micromesh proppant and methods of making and using same" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,591, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CARBO CERAMICS INC. (Houston).

"Micromesh proppant and methods of making and using same" was invented by Don Conkle (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a micromesh proppant for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. In one embodiment, a process for forming proppant particles includes providing a slurry comprising a ceramic raw material containing alumina, atomizing the slurry into droplets, coating seeds comprising alumina with the droplets to form green pellets, sintering the green pellets to form sintered pellets, and breaking the sintere...