ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,067, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Method for hydraulic fracturing and mitigating proppant flowback" was invented by Alexey Vladimirovich Alekseev (Novosibirsk, Russia), Dimitry Arefievich Chuprakov (Moscow), Denis Viktorovich Bannikov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Dmitry Sergeevich Kuznetsov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Ludmila Sergeevna Belyakova (Novosibirsk, Russia), Denis Evgenievich Syresin (Moscow), Pavel Evgenievich Spesivtsev (Moscow), Aliya Rafailovna Yuldasheva (Moscow) and Ivan Vladimirovich Velikanov (Novosibirsk, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Design method for hydrauli...