ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,083, issued on June 10, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Secondary steering pad retention mechanism" was invented by Lizheng Zhang (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary steerable system is disclosed. The rotary steerable system includes a tool collar having cavities and through holes extending there through to interconnect the cavities. The rotary steerable system also includes pad pushers each positionable within the plurality of cavities to be coupled to the tool collar, each pad pusher coupled to a respective pad retention housing on the uphole end and the downhole end of the tool collar. A s...