US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 3 for "Cutting device for wellbore control lines" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,217, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Cutting device for wellbore control lines" was invented by Matthew Craig Mlcak (Parker, Texas), Joao Paulo Scudeler Vilela (The Woodlands, Texas) and Jason Paul Metzger (Joshua, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device includes a round of shots having a radial shape. Each shot in the round of shots are operable to perforate a wellbore conduit to sever one or more control lines. Each shot in the round of shots overlaps an adjacent shot in the round of shots by an overlap width that is equal to or greater than a width of the one or more cont...