ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,216, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP (Houston).

"Initiator system providing set confirmation from plug setting tool in downhole well" was invented by Steven Zakharia (Houston), Ryan Ward (Tomball, Texas), Adam Green (Houston), Charles Levine (Houston), Benjamin Knight (Katy, Texas), Joe Noel Wells (Lindale, Texas), Timmothy Alain Lee (Tomball, Texas) and William Caruana (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for setting a plug in a wellbore includes a setting tool configured, upon activation, to displace the shift the plug in the wellbore from a run-in configuration permitting flui...