US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Fracture plugging simulation experimental device and experimental method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,621, issued on July 1, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Fracture plugging simulation experimental device and experimental method thereof" was invented by Yang Liu (Chengdu, China), Tianshou Ma (Chengdu, China), Sitong Chen (Chengdu, China), Xingyun Xiang (Chengdu, China), Yezhong Wang (Chengdu, China), Yingjie Chen (Chengdu, China) and Gui Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fracture plugging simulation experimental device and an experimental method thereof. The device comprises a simulated wellbore, a simulated formation, a simulated fracture, a plurality of pressure sen...