ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,357, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Secure Specialty Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada).
"Use of percitric acid in oil- and gas-field operations" was invented by Taryn Forster (Okotoks, Canada), David Rauser (Calgary, Canada) and Douglas Bruce (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to compositions containing percitric acid, treatment fluids containing such compositions and methods of using the treatment fluids during various oil- and gas-field operations including hydraulic fracturing, remediation, production, disposal well chemistry and cleaning equipment both above surface and d...