ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,852, issued on March 17, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"Method for removing scale from a subsea manifold" was invented by Mario Germino Ferreira Da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Francisca Ferreira Do Rosario (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Rosane Alves Fontes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Katia Regina Silva Alves Da Rosa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Valtair Marcos Cristante (Vitoria, Brazil) and Tiago Cavalcante Freitas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During meeting for planning operations for scale removal and scale inhibitor squeeze treatment in wells, the possibility of t...