US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 13 for "Electric submersible pump with active cooling" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,131, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Electric submersible pump with active cooling" was invented by Hassan Mansir (Frimley, Great Britain) and Andras Bencze (Frimley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric submersible pump includes a heat exchanger, a shaft comprising an axial bore, and a motor, which includes a rotor rotationally coupled to the shaft, a stator concentrically disposed with respect to the rotor, and a journal bearing disposed between the stator and the shaft. There is a gap between the rotor and the stator. The electric submersible pump further includes...