ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,775, issued on May 6, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Depositing coatings on and within housings, apparatus, or tools" was invented by James M. Price (Houston), Michael T. Pelletier (Houston), Jian Li (Houston), William Joseph Soltmann (Houston), Christopher Michael Jones (Houston) and Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for coating an interior surface of a housing defining a volume comprising a plurality of reactant gas sources including reactant gases for one or more surface coating processes; first and second closures to sealingly engage with an inlet and outlet...