US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "Method of preparing drilling mud through integrating ultrasonic mixing and venturi technology" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,037, issued on Feb. 24.

"Method of preparing drilling mud through integrating ultrasonic mixing and venturi technology" was invented by Syed Ehsanur Rahman (Conroe, Texas), Reza Ettehadi Osgouei (Spring, Texas), Robert Banker Comer (Spring, Texas) and Emery Horton (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes pumping a first fluid into a conduit; introducing a second fluid into a flow of the first fluid in the conduit via a venturi injector to mix the first fluid with the second fluid forming a premix; adding an additive to the premix forming an additive-containing fluid; and passing the additive-containing fluid through...