ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,042, issued on June 24, was assigned to Eavor Technologies Inc..
"Method for configuring wellbores in a geologic formation" was invented by Matthew Toews (Calgary, Canada), Paul Cairns (Calgary, Canada), Derek Riddell (Calgary, Canada), Andrew Curtis-Smith (Calgary, Canada) and Jonathan Hale (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Closed loop wellbore configurations with unrestricted geometry for accommodating irregular or challenging thermal gradients within a thermally productive formation are disclosed. A working fluid is utilized in the loop for extraction of thermal energy there from. The loop and the unrestricted geomet...