ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,945, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novus Earth Energy Operations Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Balanced geothermal energy transfer loop" was invented by Jeffery Ernst Messner (Calgary, Canada), Ralph Melvin Salm (Red Deer, Canada) and Navneet Sira (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for geothermal heat production. A balanced geothermal energy transfer loop includes a first wellbore and a second wellbore extending from surface to a subterranean geothermal formation and a plurality of balanced open hole circuits extending between the first wellbore and the second wellbore through the geothermal formati...