US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Dec. 23 for "Foaming agents, gas mobility control agents, methods, and systems for enhanced oil recovery" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,637, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Foaming agents, gas mobility control agents, methods, and systems for enhanced oil recovery" was invented by Mohammad Piri (Laramie, Wyo.), Soheil Saraji (Laramie, Wyo.), Alvinda Sri Hanamertani (Laramie, Wyo.), Keerti Vardhan Sharma (Laramie, Wyo.), Van Si Le (Laramie, Wyo.) and Magda Ibrahim Youssif Mohamed Soliman (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to methods and materials for foam production in enhanced oil recovery operations and to foaming agents, gas mobility control agents for use in porous media, compositions compris...