US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 23 for "Usage of an artificial fracture setup for gel evaluation" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,940, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Usage of an artificial fracture setup for gel evaluation" was invented by Ayman M. Almohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Dongqing Cao (Beijing), Ming Han (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bader G. Alharbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of testing pre-formed particle gels in an artificial fracture system includes introducing a suspension including a pre-formed particle gel into a testing device that includes an artificial fracture setup with a plurality of fracture model units. The system is configured to inject...