ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,732, issued on June 16, was assigned to JOSLYN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Extraction from a formation with induction heating" was invented by William George Dunford (Vancouver, Canada), Ahmed Hamid Ehmida Sherwali (Vancouver, Canada), Paul Jesper Jespersen (Calgary, Canada) and Mohammadmehdi Noroozi (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a magnetic core to be inserted into a borehole to a formation. The apparatus further includes a first coil wound about the magnetic core. In addition, the apparatus includes a first current supply to generate a f...