US Patent Issued to CARBO CERAMICS on Dec. 23 for "Composition and process for pelletizing carbon-based materials for proppant and industrial applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,649, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CARBO CERAMICS INC. (Houston).

"Composition and process for pelletizing carbon-based materials for proppant and industrial applications" was invented by Minjung Cho (Katy, Texas), Todd Roper (Katy, Texas) and Thu Lieng (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electrically-conductive pellet includes reducing a size of a first material. The method also includes wetting the first material to produce a first slurry. The method also includes introducing the first slurry into a fluidizer to produce a first pellet. The method also includes reducing a size of a second m...