ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,703, issued on May 13, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"System for optimizing particle size distribution of lost circulation materials" was invented by Tianshou Ma (Chengdu, China), Yang Liu (Chengdu, China), Sitong Chen (Chengdu, China), Pei Zhang (Chengdu, China), Lei Gao (Chengdu, China), Xingyun Xiang (Chengdu, China) and Yezhong Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for optimizing a particle size distribution of a lost circulation material. The system comprises a data acquisition module, a communication module, an experimental module, a particle size distributi...