US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 3 for "Removable covers for magnetic scale inhibitors" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,237, issued on June 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Removable covers for magnetic scale inhibitors" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Srividhya Sridhar (Houston) and Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet shield for use with a magnetic scale inhibitor includes a barrier configured for positioning at a location between the magnetic scale inhibitor and a flowbore for at least a first time period. The flowbore is configured for flow of a fluid. The barrier is: degradable in the fluid, such that, after the first time period, the barrier is no longer ...