ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,906, issued on March 3, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (Beijing) (Beijing).

"Well pattern optimization method based on CO 2 incomplete miscible displacement characteristics" was invented by Hao Chen (Beijing), Xiliang Liu (Beijing), Borui Li (Beijing), Weiming Cheng (Beijing), Xiaofeng Tian (Beijing), Xianhong Tan (Beijing), Lijun Zhang (Beijing), Yang Li (Beijing), Renfeng Yang (Beijing), Mingsheng Zuo (Beijing), Baoxi Yang (Beijing), Ruwei Zhang (Beijing), Qiuting Li (Beijing) and Zhizhen Lin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well pattern optimization method based on CO2 incomplete miscible displacement chara...