ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,958, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ChampionX LLC (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for improving thermal and brine stability of nanoparticles" was invented by Duy Nguyen (Richmond, Texas), Chad Michael Gilmer (Sugar Land, Texas) and Gedeng Ruan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amine functionalized nanoparticles having improved thermal and brine stability comprising a core-shell nanoparticle morphology comprising a trialkoxyorganosilane coated nanoparticle core and an amine functionalized group on the surface of the nanoparticle as a shell are disclosed. Methods and applications of use of the amine functionali...