US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 20 for "Activation mechanisms for wellbore devices" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,475, issued on May 20, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Activation mechanisms for wellbore devices" was invented by Shanu Thottungal Eldho (Singapore), Jalpan P. Dave (Singapore) and Ryan T. Humphrey (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packer setting apparatus utilizes a two piston design to set a sealing element of a wellbore packer based on a first level of fluid pressure provided to the packer setting apparatus when positioned downhole within a wellbore. The packer setting apparatus is further configured to maintain the sealing element in the set configuration when the packer setting apparatus i...