US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 27 for "Fire on demand atmospheric barrier valve using wireless signal transmission" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,976, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fire on demand atmospheric barrier valve using wireless signal transmission" was invented by Peter D W Inglis (Arbroath, Great Britain), Michael Christie (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Colin Reid (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for actuating a downhole tool. In some embodiments, the methods include the steps of providing a conductor having a first end positioned at a surface location and a second end positioned at a first downhole location within a wellbore, receiving an electrical signal from the ...