US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 11 for "Sleeved gun connection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,467, issued on March 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Sleeved gun connection" was invented by Joseph T. MacGillivray (Fort Worth, Texas) and Christopher C. Hoelscher (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a perforating gun assembly for use in a wellbore. In one aspect, the perforating gun assembly includes at least a tubular carrier gun body having an outer diameter, an inner diameter, and a threaded portion extending a distance (d) along an outer surface and proximate an uphole end thereof; and a swell sleeve located radially inside of the tubular carrier gun body, the swell sle...