ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,066, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods of initiating energetic reactions for reservoir stimulation" was invented by Alhad Phatak (Stafford, Texas), Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar (London), Douglas Pipchuk (Calgary, Canada), Dmitriy Potapenko (Sugar Land, Texas), Dean Michael Willberg (Sugar Land, Texas) and James Ernest Brown (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore. The one or more reactive components delivered to ...