US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Dec. 16 for "Pressurized reservoir core sample transfer tool system" (New Mexico, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,849, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Pressurized reservoir core sample transfer tool system" was invented by James Daniel Montoya (Santa Fe, N.M.), Jonathon Crain Boudreaux (Santa Fe, N.M.), Patrick Rodriguez (Santa Fe, N.M.), Cole Thomas Brinkley (Santa Fe, N.M.), Scott Jeffrey Seltzer (Houston), Marcus Oliver Wigand (Missouri City, Texas), Zheng Yang (Katy, Texas), Michael T. Rauschhuber (Houston) and Edward Russell Peacher (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transferring at least one subterranean core sample from a retrieval vessel to a testing vessel can include ...