US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Method and system to create a tortuous flow path" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,771, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method and system to create a tortuous flow path" was invented by Dean Michael Willberg (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for creating a tortuous flow path is disclosed. The system includes a production zone, and a man-made impermeable barrier disposed along a fluid flow path to the production zone to create tortuous flow path for a fluid flowing between the injection zone and the production zone."

The patent was filed on Jan. 17, 2025, under Application No. 19/027,258.

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