US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Gas sparger head for airlift geothermal systems" (West Virginia, Idaho, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,130, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Gas sparger head for airlift geothermal systems" was invented by Terence Musho (Bruceton Mills, W.va.), Nigel Clark (Morgantown, W.va.), Daniel Hand (Orlando, Fla.) and Leland Mink (Worley, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to airlift pumping of downhole geothermal fluids. In one example, an airlift system includes a compressor; a gas sparger head in a wellbore of a geothermal well, and a pressure head recycle assembly. The sparger head produces artifi...