ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,819, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Optimizing chemical treatment at the subsurface for improved well performance" was invented by Wei Wang (Houston), Wei Wei (Sugar Land, Texas), Chao Yan (Sugar Land, Texas), Wade H. Williams (Cypress, Texas), Gregory A. Winslow (Houston), Alicia Sanchez (Covington, La.), Sam Kidd (Houston), Clinton C. Terry (Jefferson, La.), Baosheng Liang (Houston), Soong Hay Tam (Midland, Texas) and Amos Sunghyun Kim (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a chemical treatment at a subsurface for improved well performance may include obtaining ...