US Patent Issued to Northeast Petroleum University on Nov. 3 for "Numerical simulation method and system for effect of clay minerals on brittleness in continental shale" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,169, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Northeast Petroleum University (Daqing, China).

"Numerical simulation method and system for effect of clay minerals on brittleness in continental shale" was invented by Xin Li (Daqing, China), Xiaofei Fu (Daqing, China), Bo Liu (Daqing, China), Jinyou Zhang (Daqing, China), Yanfang Lyu (Daqing, China), Haixue Wang (Daqing, China), Jun Feng (Daqing, China), Xiaobo Liu (Daqing, China) and Yuqi Zhang (Daqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a numerical simulation method and system suitable for the effect of clay minerals on brittleness in continental shale, whic...