ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,308, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ODESSA SEPARATOR INC. (Odessa, Texas).

"Extended chemical treatment in subterranean wells" was invented by Cavin Bert Frost (Odessa, Texas), Daniel L. Culbertson (Odessa, Texas), Gustavo A. Gonzalez-Cabrera (Midland, Texas), Jonathan F. Yates (Odessa, Texas) and Luis A. Guanacas (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of chemically treating a subterranean well can include connecting chemical treatment tools to each other, each of the chemical treatment tools including a respective chemical treatment, and deploying the treatment tools in the well, thereby contacting one chemical ...