US Patent Issued to PSMG on Feb. 18 for "Liquid chloride salt-based polymer suspension fluids with polyethylene glycol dispersants and application to drag reduction" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,643, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PSMG LLC (Ball Ground, Ga.).

"Liquid chloride salt-based polymer suspension fluids with polyethylene glycol dispersants and application to drag reduction" was invented by Jason K. Holt (Ball Ground, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aqueous suspensions are presented that are stable against settling without additional mixing in which the suspensions comprise a water soluble polymer that is anionic or non-ionic comprising a blend of water with at least about 32 weight percent chloride salt with a counter ion A+a with 2less than equal toa, from about 1 wt % to about 10 wt % particulate polyethyle...