US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 1 for "Heaters to accelerate setting of expandable metal" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,115, issued on July 1, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Heaters to accelerate setting of expandable metal" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, Texas), Joachim Pihl (Sandefjord, Norway) and Arpana Verma (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for setting a downhole tool, and a downhole localized heater. The method, in at least one aspect, includes positioning a downhole tool within a wellbore, the downhole tool including expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis, and positioning a downhole localized heater within the wellbore, the downhole local...