ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,269, issued on April 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Transmission drive for downhole tools" was invented by Shiao Loong Tang (Singapore) and Simon Whye Kwong Wai (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Downhole tools for use in performing one or more operations in a wellbore include one cycloid drive or a plurality of cycloid drives coupled to the downhole tool, the cycloid drive(s) configured to operate the downhole tool when powered by an actuator device, such as an electric motor or some other actuator device capable of driving an input to the cycloid drive(s)."
The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 20...