US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 25 for "Remotely activated multi-cycle wellbore cleaning tool" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,841, issued on March 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Remotely activated multi-cycle wellbore cleaning tool" was invented by Jon-Howard Elliott Hanson (Dallas), Kyle Wayne Davis (Celina, Texas), Peter Reid Maher (Lafayette, La.), Timothy Simmonds (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Alan Pace (Inverbervie, Great Britain) and Gavin Munro (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool for cleaning a wellbore includes a tool body having a passage therein. A liquid is to flow through the passage of the tool body and have an intermittent flow pattern. An inner sleeve positioned within the tool body incl...