ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,392, issued on June 24, was assigned to SOLUGEN INC. (Houston).

"Compositions and methods for iron chelation" was invented by Paul Schuber (Sugar Land, Texas), Jun Su An (Houston), Thomas A. Swanson (Houston), Jason Helander (Richmond, Texas), Kevin Loftis (Conroe, Texas), Gaurab Chakrabarti (Houston), Sean Hunt (Houston) and Chris Arceo (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for efficient metal chelation includes (i) a primary chelant; (ii) a coordination enhancing additive; and (iii) a solvent. A wellbore servicing fluid includes (i) a primary chelant; (ii) a coordination enhancing additive; and (iii) a solve...