US Patent Issued to Fervo Energy on Aug. 25 for "Method for determining the heat in place for a geothermal system with horizontal wells" (Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,064, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fervo Energy Co. (Houston).

"Method for determining the heat in place for a geothermal system with horizontal wells" was invented by Jack Norbeck (Golden, Colo.), Katharine Voller (Mc Kees Rocks, Pa.), Steven Fercho (Reno, Nev.), Emma G. McConville (Reno, Nev.), Aleksei Titov (Golden, Colo.), Sireesh Dadi (Houston) and Christian Gradl (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques may be used for identifying geology, state of stress, or heat in place for a horizontal well. An example technique may include generating a 3D geologic model or a 3D temperature model of a horizontal w...