ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,338, issued on Nov. 11.
"Disappear-on-demand material actuator, method and system" was invented by Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Vimal Shah (Sugar Land, Texas) and Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disappear-on-demand material actuator, including a trigger disposed in operable contact with the material, the trigger configured to respond to manipulation of a tubing string in operable communication with the actuator, and an electrical energy source electrically connected to the material and configured to supply electrical energy to the material upon a sequence initiation of the trigger. A method for actua...