ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,305, issued on May 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for recovering ammonia from a subsurface formation" was invented by Fahad Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Aldeen Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Arshad Raza (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Murtadha J. AlTammar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shirish Patil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recovering ammonia from an endothermic reaction in a subsurface formation may comprise a subsurface formation; a wellbore fluidly co...