US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 24 for "Geopolymer compositions and methods" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,662, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Geopolymer compositions and methods" was invented by Mark Meade (Katy, Texas), Andrey Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Houston), Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nathan Fischer (Sugar Land, Texas), Christopher Parton (Rosenberg, Texas), Veronica Richter McDonald (Sugar Land, Texas), Yeukayi Nenjerama (Sugar Land, Texas) and Randy Tercero (La Porte, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Geopolymeric compositions are presented that are useful as geopolymer slurries for cementing subterranean wells. The slurries may contain an alu...