US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 22 for "Silica inhibitors for silica inhibition and dispersion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,890, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Silica inhibitors for silica inhibition and dispersion" was invented by Mary Jane Felipe (Sugar Land, Texas), Jonathan Vargas (Rosenberg, Texas), Tomasa Ledesma (Houston), Ramakrishna Ponnapati (Houston), Sankaran Murugesan (Katy, Texas) and Swamy Margan (Conroe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silica inhibitor is disclosed for inhibiting silica scale formation and dispersing silica. In one aspect, a method for reducing silica levels in an aqueous system involves obtaining a silica inhibitor with a branched polyethylenimine and treating ...