ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,880, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"POSS-based hybrid supercritical CO 2 thickener and preparation method thereof" was invented by Daijun Du (Chengdu, China), Jintao Li (Chengdu, China), Wanfen Pu (Chengdu, China), Jinzhou Zhao (Chengdu, China), Pengfei Chen (Chengdu, China), Ying Xiong (Chengdu, China), Rui Jiang (Chengdu, China), Tao Wu (Chengdu, China) and Mingming Song (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a POSS-based hybrid supercritical CO2 thickener and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of oil and ga...