US Patent Issued to Southwest Petroleum University, TIANFU YONGXING LABORATORY on July 1 for "Supercritical CO2 thickener for shale gas reservoir based on hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,796, issued on July 1, was assigned to Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu, China) and TIANFU YONGXING LABORATORY (Chengdu, China).

"Supercritical CO2 thickener for shale gas reservoir based on hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles and preparation method thereof" was invented by Jinzhou Zhao (Chengdu, China), Daijun Du (Chengdu, China), Wanfen Pu (Chengdu, China), Zezhou Fang (Chengdu, China), Bo Zhou (Chengdu, China), Chao Shen (Chengdu, China), Zijia Liao (Chengdu, China), Jintao Li (Chengdu, China), Ying Xiong (Chengdu, China) and Rui Jiang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a superc...