ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,441, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Elastic conformance gels" was invented by Larry Steven Eoff (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for subterranean zonal isolation, and more particularly to systems and methods of plugging a permeable zone in a wellbore using an elastic sealant composition comprising a cross-linkable polymer, a cross-linking agent, and an elasticity modifier, wherein the elasticity modifier comprises at least one elasticity modifier selected from the group consisting of organophilically-modified clay and/or latex. The elasti...