ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,713, issued on June 24, was assigned to BiSN Tec Ltd. (Warrington, Great Britain).
"One trip system to set an alloy seal and mill through" was invented by Jake Dearmon (Birchwood, Great Britain) and Matt Naylor (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a tool assembly system for use in a single trip downhole operation in which an alloy plug/seal is set and then at least partially milled through. The system comprises a tubular chemical heater with a mill that has at least one flow port and a tubular mandrel arranged on the outside of the heater at up-hole and down-holes ends of the heater respectively and ...