US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 25 for "Water soluble anionic metal-organic cages as cation capture species for scale reduction" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,033, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Water soluble anionic metal-organic cages as cation capture species for scale reduction" was invented by Gregory Steven Day (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for scale treatment may include providing a treatment fluid, contacting an inorganic scale with the treatment fluid, and dissolving at least a portion of the inorganic scale through the capture and sequestration of the cationic components of the inorganic scale in pores of the metal-organic cage. The treatment fluid includes an inorganic scale remover comprising metal-organic cages...