US Patent Issued to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO on Feb. 18 for "Microbial products and uses thereof to improve oil recovery" (Ohio, Arizona, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,694, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO LLC (Solon, Ohio).

"Microbial products and uses thereof to improve oil recovery" was invented by Sean Farmer (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Ken Alibek (Solon, Ohio), Sharmistha Mazumder (Copley, Ohio), Kent Adams (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Tyler Dixon (Madison, Ohio), Yajie Chen (Solon, Ohio) and Maja Milovanovic (North Royalton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to compositions and methods of microbial enhanced oil recovery using biochemical-producing microbes. In specific embodiments, the methods of the subject invention comprise applying a biosurfactant-produ...