US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 5 for "Designing cement that withstands perforations and other impact loads" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,969, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Designing cement that withstands perforations and other impact loads" was invented by Siva Rama Krishna Jandhyala (The Woodlands, Texas), Thomas Jason Pisklak (Houston), Ronnie Glen Morgan (Duncan, Okla.) and John Paul Bir Singh (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method for designing cement slurry compositions based on toughness. The method addresses the problem of achieving a cement slurry with a desired toughness by iteratively selecting a cementitious material and water, including their concentrations, to ...