ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,235, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"High flow deepset insert safety valve" was invented by Matthew Gassen (Carrollton, Texas), James Dan Vick Jr. (Carrollton, Texas) and Hadi Arabnejad Khanouki (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert valve installed, at least partially, in a safety valve that includes a flow port disposed on an exterior of the insert valve, a poppet configured to control a fluid flow through the flow port, a piston rod, disposed uphole from the poppet, configured to move the poppet past at least part of the flow port, and a hydraulic control port conf...