ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,734, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Use of turbulent flow in a frac plug" was invented by Daniel Keith Moeller (Carrollton, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are embodiments of a frac plug for use downhole in a wellbore, a system, and a method for creating a pressure differential in the wellbore or performing an operation downhole in the wellbore. In one embodiment a plug for use within a wellbore comprises a mandrel; and a flow restrictor positioned within an inner diameter of the mandrel. In one embodiment, a method may include positioning a frac plug at a depth insi...