US Patent Issued to XGS Energy on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for thermal reach enhancement" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,511, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to XGS Energy Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for thermal reach enhancement" was invented by Piotr D. Moncarz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Poodipeddi V. Suryanarayana (Plano, Texas), Louis Capuano Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.), Axel-Pierre Bois (Curis-au-Mont-d'Or, France) and Daniel Bour (Granite Falls, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal reach enhanced geothermal wellbore is provided. The geothermal wellbore includes a wellbore extending from a topside surface to a target location in a formation. The geothermal wellbore further includes a plurality of fissures that distally extend fr...