ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,900, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Synergistic paraffin inhibitors with high and low crystallization onset temperatures" was invented by Wojciech Jakubowski (Sugar Land, Texas), Rostyslav Dolog (Houston) and Radhika Suresh (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a synergistic paraffin inhibitor includes a high-temperature intermediate and a low-temperature intermediate. The high-temperature intermediate has a high crystallization onset temperature, while the low-temperature intermediate has a low crystallization onset temperature that is within a range of ...