Peter Brewer served as one of the speakers at the 2022 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition. The conference was held in Houston, Texas from October 16-18, 2022. The annual conference, sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, is attended by engineers from all over the world working in the upstream oil and gas industry. Peter’s presentation was entitled: “Innovation, Patents, and the Future of an Industry.” The paper was published as SPE-210282-MS. Upon request, Peter would be happy to e-mail you a .pdf file of a fuller version of the paper.