US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 19 for "Power switch actuator for downhole tools" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,203, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Power switch actuator for downhole tools" was invented by Louis Francis Lafleur (Spring, Texas) and Christie Jose (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to an actuator assembly, that includes a plunger housing, a switch plunger disposed within the plunger housing, and a switch actuator configured to induce linear movement of the switch plunger along the plunger housing, where the actuator assembly is configured to change between an ON position and an OFF position by moving the switch...