US Patent Issued to INDEPENDENCE OILFIELD CHEMICALS on July 14 for "Subterranean formations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,015, issued on July 14, was assigned to INDEPENDENCE OILFIELD CHEMICALS LLC (Houston).

"Subterranean formations" was invented by Kimberley Macewen (Cypress, Texas), Kurt Hoeman (Houston) and Jeffrey C. Dawson (Conroe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a subterranean formation, for example a subterranean formation susceptible to formation of a undesirable gel-like goo. The method includes contacting the formation with a fluid (A) having a polymer (PP) which includes a pendent group which includes a moiety: wherein the sulphur atom of the moiety is covalently bonded, optionally via a linking atom or group, to th...