US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Nov. 18 for "Assessing and reducing deposition of scales and other solids" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,249, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Assessing and reducing deposition of scales and other solids" was invented by Wei Wang (Houston), Wei Wei (Sugar Land, Texas), Chao Yan (Sugar Land, Texas), Gregory A. Winslow (Houston), Xinghui Liu (Houston) and Oya Aysen Karazincir (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a fluid to reduce a deposition of a solid within a fractured subterranean formation may include obtaining information about materials inside of a testing vessel, where the materials are designed to be representative of the fractured subterranean formation. The ...