ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,407, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Finoric LLC (Beasley, Texas).

"Compositions useful for diverting or stopping fluids in subterranean operations" was invented by Ambrish Kamdar (Sugar Land, Texas) and Deepak Patil (Friendswood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flow of a fluid may be diverted from a high permeability zone to a low permeability zone of a subterranean formation or well sections may be temporarily isolated by use of particles comprising a mixture of (i) at least one bi-phenyl compound of Compound I, (ii) one mellitic derivative of Compound II, (iii) one chelating agent of Compound III, (iv) one polymer of C...