US Patent Issued to SOLUGEN on May 12 for "Compositions and methods for the dissolution of iron sulfide" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,276, issued on May 12, was assigned to SOLUGEN INC. (Houston).

"Compositions and methods for the dissolution of iron sulfide" was invented by Catherine Gonzalez (Houston), Jason Helander (Richmond, Texas), Jun Su An (Houston), Thomas Swanson (Houston), Jihye Kim (Sugar Land, Texas) and Kimchi Phan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing scale on a surface, the method including: contacting (i) one or more biochelants; (ii) one or more organophosphorus compound; (iii) an optional enhancer and (iv) a solvent with the surface having one or more deposits comprising iron sulfide. A composition comprising: (i) a biochela...