US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 18 for "Expandable metal for non-compliant areas between screens" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,952, issued on March 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Expandable metal for non-compliant areas between screens" was invented by Brandon T. Least (Carrollton, Texas) and Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a clamshell packer for use in a wellbore proximate to a subsurface formation comprises an expandable non-elastomeric material and is configured to annularly envelop a non-compliant portion of a tubular in the wellbore, the non-compliant portion between one or more expandable screens."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2023, under Applicati...