ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,583, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (BEIJING) (Beijing).

"Method for establishing mathematical model of relationship between spontaneous imbibition volume and time of porous medium" was invented by Yanbin Yao (Beijing), Zishuo Li (Beijing), Dameng Liu (Beijing), Xiaoxiao Sun (Beijing) and Yong Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing mathematical model of relationship between spontaneous imbibition volume and time of porous medium includes sample pretreatment, fully-saturation and centrifugal experiments and NMR T2 measurement. First, two rock core samples of predeter...