US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 29 for "Compositions and systems for elastic turbulence" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,382, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Compositions and systems for elastic turbulence" was invented by Andrew Clarke (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Anand Raghavan (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid composition which is able to exhibit elastic turbulence while pumped through a flow path which compels changes of direction of flow streamlines and comprise a solution of two or more flexible linear polymers in two categories. The first category has an average molecular weight of at least 10 MegaDaltons and the second category has an average molecular wei...