US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for enhanced oil recovery" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,975, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Methods and apparatus for enhanced oil recovery" was invented by Shixun Bai (Laramie, Wyo.), Jan Kubelka (Laramie, Wyo.) and Mohammad Piri (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for enhanced oil recovery. In an embodiment, a method of enhanced oil recovery from a reservoir is provided. The method includes determining a three-dimensional molecular association between simulated oil and a simulated surface using molecular dynamics, and selecting a reservoir additive from a...