US Patent Issued to G&H Diversified Manufacturing on Feb. 3 for "Hybrid dissolvable plugs for sealing downhole casing strings" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,525, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP (Houston).

"Hybrid dissolvable plugs for sealing downhole casing strings" was invented by Steven Zakharia (Houston), Joshua Magill (Cypress, Texas) and Ryan Ward (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug deployable into a wellbore having a casing string includes a sealing element including an outer sealing surface configured to extend outwardly from a central axis of the plug and sealingly press against a casing string when the plug is in the second configuration, and a slip including at least one slip body having a peripheral outer face oriented to fa...