ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,022, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CHONGQING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES (Chongqing, China) and Chongqing University (Chongqing, China).

"Experimental system and experimental evaluation method for pulsed displacement and replacement of methane with carbon dioxide" was invented by Yiyu Lu (Chongqing, China), Zhaohui Lu (Chongqing, China), Jiankun Zhou (Chongqing, China), Jiren Tang (Chongqing, China) and Yunzhong Jia (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An experimental system for a pulsed displacement and replacement of methane with carbon dioxide is provided. The experimental system includes a gas supply...