US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Surfactant formulations for aqueous foam stability at high temperature and high salinity conditions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,940, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Surfactant formulations for aqueous foam stability at high temperature and high salinity conditions" was invented by Yifan Wang (Lake Jackson, Texas), Amit Katiyar (Sugar Land, Texas), Troy E. Knight (Missouri City, Texas), Matthew E. Crosley (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Phillip D. Kardenetz (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surfactant composition including a C10 AOS and/or C12 AOS, and an effective amount of at least one solubilizing component so as to increase brine tolerance of the composition is disclosed. The solubilizing comp...