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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2021
Applicant:

The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);

Inventors:

Thomas P. Schuman, Rolla, MO (US);

Baojun Bai, Rolla, MO (US);

Buddhabhushan Pundlik Salunkhe, Rolla, MO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 8/426 (2013.01);
Abstract

Compositions of swellable non-toxic hydrogels and their use in conformance control are described herein. More specifically, the present invention generally relates to the hydrogels compositions that can be used to treat the oil reservoirs having high temperature and high salinity conditions. The compositions generally comprise a plurality of swellable particles having one or more crosslinkers interspersed within a polymer matrix. The compositions can also be used in biomedical, agricultural, fracking and similar applications wherein thermally-stable, nontoxic hydrogels are required.


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