US Patent Issued to Resman AS on Sept. 9 for "System and method of monitoring fracturing in geothermal systems" (British, Norwegian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,705, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Resman AS (Ranheim, Norway).

"System and method of monitoring fracturing in geothermal systems" was invented by Scott Lavoie (The Woodlands, Texas), Bonnie Powell (Houston), Sven Kristian Hartvig (Raelingen, Norway), Edmund Leung (Karrinyup, Australia) and Roy Greig (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention may provide a method and system of characterising at least one fracture in an enhanced geothermal system. The method comprises arranging two or more tracer sources with distinct tracer materials in known levels of a production well of the enhanced geothermal syst...