ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,628, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Using opposing charges to balance force" was invented by Jason Karl Cook (Corwley, Texas) and Matthew Craig Mlcak (Porter, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to force-balanced perforating tools that employ opposing non-perpendicular shaped charge orientations. A perforating tool includes at least two shaped charges positioned to fire in opposing directions, wherein each shaped charged is oriented at an angle that is not perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the perforating tool."
The patent wa...