US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Jan. 27 for "Ionic liquid monomer for synthesis of friction reducer and methods thereof" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,659, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Ionic liquid monomer for synthesis of friction reducer and methods thereof" was invented by Xuan Zhang (Beijing), Jose I. Rueda (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ming Han (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Bataweel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ziyuan Qi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition includes an ionic liquid monomer having the following structure:where n is an integer from 1 to 5 and the ionic liquid monomer has a melting point less than 100deg C. A method of making the ionic liquid includes providing a mixture comprising a sulfoni...