ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,464, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Methods for hydrocarbon recovery" was invented by Do Hoon Kim (Katy, Texas), Dennis Arun Alexis (Richmond, Va.), Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston), David Espinosa (Houston), Taimur Malik (Houston), Logan Jackson (Norcross, Ga.), Tom Lynch (Roswell, Ga.), Ronald Robinson (Newnan, Ga.), Frances Fournier (Marietta, Ga.), Hong Yang (Atlanta) and Sukhjit Aujla (The Woodlands, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer), as well as methods for prep...