US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 31 for "Methods and compositions using dissolvable gelled materials for diversion" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,240, issued on March 31, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and compositions using dissolvable gelled materials for diversion" was invented by Yenny Christanti (Houston), Konstantin Viktorovich Vidma (Sugar Land, Texas), Changsheng Xiang (Houston), Samuel Danican (Sugar Land, Texas) and Valerie Gisele Helene Lafitte (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore treatment fluid is disclosed herein, the fluid comprising a butenediol vinyl alcohol copolymer. Also, a wellbore treatment fluid comprises a dissolvable material capable of forming a gel upon hydration, the dissolvable m...