ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,696, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Casing treatment system and method" was invented by Nicole Leanne Key (West Lafayette, Ind.), William Joseph Brown (Lafayette, Ind.), Andrew Curtis Cusator (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Yu Ning Dai (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The casing treatment system includes a compressor having an injection port, an extraction portion, a recirculation channel. It is also contemplated for the casing treatment system to include a plurality of injection ports, a plurality of extraction ports, and/or a plurality of recirculation channels....