US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 18 for "Inflow control device with dissolvable plugs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,966, issued on March 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Inflow control device with dissolvable plugs" was invented by Jacob Zachariah (Houston), Bryan Ping Chew Chay (Houston), Stephen Michael Greci (Houston) and Michael Linley Fripp (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower completion assembly includes a tubular comprising an interior passageway defined by an internal surface of the pipe and a port extending between external and internal surfaces of the tubular. The port is defined by a first surface that extends between the internal and external surfaces. The assembly also includes an inflow con...