ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,987, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Patina IP LLC (Houston).
"Continuous characterization and communication of chemical tracer" was invented by Jason Michael Watford (Houston) and John Jeffrey Pechiney (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and methods for characterizing and communicating chemical tracer presence in a subterranean formation traversed by a wellbore including collecting fluid from the wellbore at a wellhead, analyzing the fluid for the presence or concentration or both of the tracer using a gas chromatograph connected to a line collecting the fluid from the wellhead, and communicating the gas chromato...