US Patent Issued to Colorado School of Mines on April 7 for "System and method for harvesting geothermal energy from a subterranean formation" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,936, issued on April 7, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"System and method for harvesting geothermal energy from a subterranean formation" was invented by William W. Fleckenstein (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of harvesting geothermal energy in a subterranean formation includes providing an injection wellbore that extends into the subterranean formation, positioning a plurality of selectively opening sleeves in the injection wellbore spaced apart the subterranean formation, providing at least one producing wellbore that extends into the subterranean formation in a predete...