ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,906, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Damorphe Inc. (Houston).
"Shaped charge liners with integrated tracers" was invented by Ting Chen (Sugar Land, Texas), Indranil Roy (Sugar Land, Texas), Kamel Bennaceur (Paris) and Hifzi Ardic (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liner for a shaped charge having integrated tracers. The liner, when the associated shaped charge is detonated, does not create a plug, carrot, or residue in the created perforation tunnel. The liner includes integrated tracers that, after detonation, are scattered into the perforation tunnel and then begin to flow back in formation fluid flow and are identifiable i...