ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,956, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Shanghai).

"Method for inhibiting biogenic hydrogen sulfide in oilfields" was invented by Bozhong Mu (Shanghai), Lei Zhou (Shanghai), Yifan Liu (Shanghai), Shizhong Yang (Shanghai) and Jun Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting biogenic hydrogen sulfide in oilfields. A synergistic inhibition system combination agent containing Geobacillus strain GW1 is added into oilfield systems, wherein the strain GW1 has been deposited in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on Oc...