ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,855, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Shear resistant swellable packers" was invented by Ramya Priyadarsini Selvamurugan (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a variety of methods and systems related to zonal isolation in wellbores, and more particularly, swellable packer assemblies. In embodiments, a swellable packer includes a base conduit, a reinforcement element disposed annularly about the base conduit, that includes an annular section, a stabilizing foot to stabilize the annular section relative to the base conduit, and a swellable material annularly disposed outs...