US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 17 for "Hydration systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,556, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Hydration systems and methods" was invented by Rajesh Luharuka (Katy, Texas), Hau Nguyen-Phuc Pham (Houston), Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong (Richmond, Texas), Miguel Angel Lopez (Missouri City, Texas), Rod William Shampine (Houston), Gocha G. Chochua (Sugar Land, Texas) and Mark Maher Hakim Ayyad (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substantially continuous stream of aqueous fluid and a substantially continuous stream of gel having a first concentration are combined to form a substantially continuous stream of gel having a second ...