ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,062, issued on March 24, was assigned to JGS RESOURCES LLC (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method for stimulating injection wells using reducing agents" was invented by Sriram Solairaj (Sugar Land, Texas) and Gary Arnold Pope (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for increasing the injectivity of wells used to inject water or water containing various chemicals such as water-soluble polymers for the purpose of increasing the recovery of hydrocarbons such as crude oil from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation. Injectivity often decreases because of adverse reactions or plugging at or near the well...