ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,744, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Methods for optimizing multi-cycle pressure- separated water injection in oilfields based on improved butterfly algorithms" was invented by Jun Zhou (Chengdu, China), Shitao Liu (Chengdu, China), Guangchuan Liang (Chengdu, China), Ye Shi (Chengdu, China), Jinghong Peng (Chengdu, China) and Longyu Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for optimizing multi-cycle pressure-separated water injection in an oilfield based on an improved butterfly algorithm. The method includes: S1: obtaining basic data of a target wate...