ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,888, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ConocoPhillips Co. (Houston).
"Inert fluid assays for sealed core recovery" was invented by Martin C. Krueger (Houston), Shaina A. Kelly (Houston), Gerald E. Michael (Houston), Thiago B. Simoes Correa (Houston) and Russell Bone (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of determining if a test fluid is inert to reservoir oil at RTP, by assaying a composition, density and bubble or dew point of live oil to generate a first dataset, equilibrating a sample of live oil with a test fluid at RTP to generate an oil phase; assaying a composition, density and bubble or dew point of the oil phase t...