ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,342, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING (Beijing).

"Preparation method of micro-nanofluidic model of triple-medium carbonate reservoir" was invented by Qichao Lv (Beijing), Rong Zheng (Beijing), Chenggang Xian (Beijing), Honglei Zhan (Beijing), Juan Zhang (Beijing), Tongke Zhou (Beijing), Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh (Beijing), Tingting Yi (Beijing) and Saeid Norouzi Apourvari (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of a micro-nanofluidic model of triple-medium carbonate reservoir includes the following steps: obtaining a cave structure, a fracture structure and a pore s...