US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 8 for "No-rotation latch coupling and latch for casing assemblies" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,114, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"No-rotation latch coupling and latch for casing assemblies" was invented by David J. Steele (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a downhole tubular and a latch assembly securable to a conveyance that is configured to lower the latch assembly into a central bore of the downhole tubular. The latch assembly includes a tubular body portion, a plurality of latch keys secured to the tubular body portion, and at least one alignment feature secured to the tubular body portion. The system further includes a latch coupling formed o...