US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Dec. 9 for "Perforating gun assembly with reduced shock transmission" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,617, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Perforating gun assembly with reduced shock transmission" was invented by Brenden Grove (Mansfield, Texas), Courtney Ann Thain Roberts (Crowley, Texas), Jason Karl Cook (Crowley, Texas) and Christopher C Hoelscher (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and systems for perforating a formation surrounding a borehole that include placing a perforating gun assembly into the borehole, the perforating gun assembly including a gun body comprising a connector and a shaped charge within the gun body. The shaped charges are detonated, thereby ...