US Patent Issued to ACULON on Sept. 29 for "Surface treatment compositions used for carbon sequestration, hydraulic fracturing and increasing oil production from a subterranean formation, and method of hydraulic fracturing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,386, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ACULON INC. (San Diego).

"Surface treatment compositions used for carbon sequestration, hydraulic fracturing and increasing oil production from a subterranean formation, and method of hydraulic fracturing" was invented by Eric L. Hanson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Majid Monji (San Diego), Elizabeth Cambre (Texas City, Texas) and Edward Hughes (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of increasing oil production, hydraulic fracturing, and carbon sequestration in subterranean formations. Surface treatment compositions used in these methods are also disclosed. The...