ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,825, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp-Rock Technologies Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Methods and systems to determine a concentration of sealing particulates in drilling fluid" was invented by Hong Max Wang (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a seal weight of a sealing composition for sealing a selected seal width and using the seal weight to compare different sealing compositions for sealing efficiency. The seal weight is also to be used to directly determine the minimum concentration of a sealing composition in drilling fluid for a desired level of spurt loss control in order to prevent losing drilling flui...