US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 17 for "Steering valve for deactivating a steering pad of a rotary steerable system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,640, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Steering valve for deactivating a steering pad of a rotary steerable system" was invented by Lizheng Zhang (Humble, Texas) and Paravastu Badrinarayanan (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary steerable drilling system can be positioned in a subterranean formation to steer a drill to form a wellbore in the subterranean formation. An orientation of a steering valve, which is positioned in the rotary steerable drilling system, can be adjusted to cover each channel of one or more channels of a valve seat adjacent the steering valve to dea...