US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 15 for "Wellbore servicing compositions containing a latex additive" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,108, issued on July 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Wellbore servicing compositions containing a latex additive" was invented by William Cecil Pearl (Houston), Travis Allen Patterson (Houston) and Samuel J. Lewis (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid additive composition comprising (i) a biopolymer gum and (ii) a latex, wherein a ratio of biopolymer gum to latex ranges from about 1:50 to about 1:500. A method of preparing a liquid additive composition comprising contacting a biopolymer gum and a latex to form a mixture wherein a ratio of biopolymer gum to latex ranges from about 1:60 to abo...