ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,956, issued on April 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Supramolecular host guest product concentrators for production fluids" was invented by Jay Deville (Houston), Enrique Antonio Reyes (Houston), Antonio Recio (Houston), William W. Shumway (Houston) and Ronald Bosch (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: introducing a treatment fluid into a production fluid disposed in a surface well system, the treatment fluid comprising: a base fluid; and a supramolecular host guest product comprising: a treatment fluid additive comprising a surfactant; and a supramolecular host molecule, where...