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US 11,454,082 B2Granted
Engineered composite assembly with controllable dissolution
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsSakethraman Mahalingam, Graham Hitchcock, Daniele Colombo, Jianhui Xu
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Abstract
An exemplary dissolvable assembly is provided. The dissolvable assembly includes a skeleton made from a first material, and a body made from a second material, wherein the first material and the second material dissolve at different rates.
Claims25
A dissolvable assembly comprising:
- a skeleton made from a first material;
- and
- a body made from a second material, wherein the first material and the second material dissolve at different rates, and wherein the skeleton comprises a fishbone pattern in which ribs of the first material branch from a central structure formed from the first material, and wherein the skeleton comprises a fractal structure in which the ribs branching from the central structure further branch to form smaller ribs at least once.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.