ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,359, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Chemical hydrostatic backpressure reduction methodology to flow fluids through disposal wells" was invented by Nasser Mubarak Al-Hajri (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulaziz Essam AlDughaither (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To control hydrostatic backpressure of disposal wells connected to a disposal plant surface network, density of water to be injected from a water disposal plant system into disposal wells formed in a subterranean zone, a density of a hydrostatic backpressure-modifying additive to modify a density of the w...