ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,959, issued on July 29, was assigned to G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP (Houston).
"Release tool" was invented by Steven Zakharia (Houston), Christian Atilano (Houston) and Ryan Ward (Tomball, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A release tool for connecting a workstring to a toolstring. The release tool will be used for contingency if the toolstring gets stuck downhole and hopefully rarely would be actuated. In the present disclosure, the release tool is not broken or destroyed, but is simply disconnected into two parts using the propellent of a low explosive combustion element. This element produces gasses that drive the disconne...