US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 17 for "Breakthrough detection for lithium bearing reservoirs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,863, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Breakthrough detection for lithium bearing reservoirs" was invented by Rod William Shampine (Houston) and Roger A. Daar Jr. (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for extracting minerals from a reservoir zone. The method includes extracting a fluid from the reservoir zone, the fluid including mineral brine and the mineral brine including the minerals, extracting the minerals from the mineral brine and producing a depleted effluent, injecting one or more tracers into the depleted e...