US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on March 3 for "Nanoparticles and polymers for contaminant removal" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,621, issued on March 3, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Nanoparticles and polymers for contaminant removal" was invented by Leonardo Franca (Katy, Texas), Radhika Suresh (Sugar Land, Texas), Rostyslav Dolog (Houston), Joseph Arensdorf (Conroe, Texas) and Griffin Koehler (Santa Fe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment formulation for removing target impurities from a system can include a synergistic combination of a polymer and a nanoparticle compound. In one aspect, a treatment formulation includes a contaminant removal agent and a solvent. The contaminant removal agent of one embodiment i...