US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 23 for "Intervention-less method of setting open hole packers" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,925, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Intervention-less method of setting open hole packers" was invented by Jalpan Piyush Dave (Singapore), Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore) and Shanu Thottungal Eldho (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic ratcheting device that includes an activation chamber, a valve chamber disposed adjacent to the activation chamber, and an activation piston that includes a first piston area exposed to a fluid source, and a second piston area exposed to the valve chamber, where the activation piston is configured to translate forward, in response to a p...