US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 9 for "Hydrogen swellable fillers for surface and underground fluid isolation barriers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,874, issued on June 9, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Hydrogen swellable fillers for surface and underground fluid isolation barriers" was invented by Jushik Yun (Sugar Land, Texas) and Manuel Marya (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to hydrogen swellable fillers, methods for their preparation and their use in, for example, oil-field exploration, production, testing, underground gas storage, production and transportation. The hydrogen swellable material can include an elastomer and a filler. The elastomer can have a hardness between about 40 and about 80 ...