US Patent Issued to Fervo Energy on July 14 for "Self-correcting flow in subsurface wells" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,433, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fervo Energy Co. (Houston).

"Self-correcting flow in subsurface wells" was invented by Timothy Latimer (Houston) and Jack Norbeck (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques may include enhancing production of a natural resource from a reservoir in the earth. A technique may include, in a reservoir comprising a first and a second well, pumping a first material down the first well into the reservoir, and circulating the first material through the reservoir at a first flow rate and up the second well for a period of time, the first material interacting with a proppant in ...