US Patent Issued to PERM on Dec. 2 for "Magnetic nanoemulsions for fluid conductivity analysis in subsurface reservoirs" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,763, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PERM INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Magnetic nanoemulsions for fluid conductivity analysis in subsurface reservoirs" was invented by Boxin Ding (Calgary, Canada), Steven L. Bryant (Calgary, Canada) and Apostolos Kantzas (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for determining the fluid conductivity of a fluid network. The method includes injecting a nanoemulsion into the formation, the nanoemulsion including a carrier liquid and nanodroplets. The nanodroplets are stabilized within the carrier liquid by polymer-coated iron oxide nanoparticles. After extracting fluid from the...