US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 10 for "Sealing assembly employing a cylindrical protective sleeve" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,053, issued on June 10, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sealing assembly employing a cylindrical protective sleeve" was invented by Adam J. Milne (Carrollton, Texas) and Jalpan Piyush Dave (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sealing assembly, a well system, and a method. The sealing assembly, in one aspect, includes a mandrel, and a sealing element positioned about the mandrel. The sealing element, in this aspect, includes a cylindrical protective sleeve positioned about the sealing element, the cylindrical protective sleeve configured to break to deploy from an undeployed state to a d...