ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,518, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu, China).

"Device and method for calculating change in CO 2 storage capacity before and after reservoir drying" was invented by Jiazheng Qin (Chengdu, China), Ning Wang (Chengdu, China), Yong Tang (Chengdu, China), Youwei He (Chengdu, China), Zhenhua Rui (Chengdu, China), Yueliang Liu (Chengdu, China) and Maohan Yuan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents a device and method for calculating a change in CO2 storage capacity before and after drying, wherein the method comprises the following steps: S1: acquire a targ...