ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,810, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BLUE NOSE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Industrial fluids with dilution resistance and tunable viscosity, and methods of making and using industrial fluids" was invented by Nicolas A. Koster (Denver), Darrell Dous (Rimbey, Canada) and Anthony Manning (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for sealing a leak in a well may include a phenolic curable resin. The leak may be sealed by deploying a mixture of water and a phenolic curable resin into the well, wherein the resin polymerizes and hardens at and around the leak in the well. The well may be an oil, ...