US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 29 for "Fiber optic enabled intelligent completion employing an end connector" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,840, issued on April 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fiber optic enabled intelligent completion employing an end connector" was invented by Brian Patrick McGuigan (Houston), Glenn Wilson (Houston) and Seth Cormier (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system and a related method are discussed. The well system, in one aspect, includes a wellbore extending through a subterranean hydrocarbon producing zone, as well as production tubing located in the wellbore, the production tubing including a first inflow control valve configured to regulate a first inflow of hydrocarbons from the subterranean h...