ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,381, issued on June 2, was assigned to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chongqing, China).

"Experimental device and method for determining blockage type and main control factor of polymer injection well" was invented by Qianhua Xiao (Chongqing, China), Shijie Zhu (Chongqing, China), Yang Wang (Chongqing, China), Mei Xu (Chongqing, China), Lei Liu (Chongqing, China), Zhengqi Su (Chongqing, China), Peixian Shao (Chongqing, China), Na Dong (Chongqing, China), Jiahao Li (Chongqing, China) and Ling Shi (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an experimental device and a ...