ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,337, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Autonomous wellbore cleaning system" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Mark S. Holly (Singapore), Wei Zhang (Houston) and Aswin Balasubramanian (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus, system, and method directed for an autonomous wellbore cleaner. In one embodiment, an apparatus for cleaning a wellbore, the apparatus comprising: an autonomous robot, wherein the robot is self-propelled; a power source for the robot; a motor for propelling the robot axially within the wellbore; at least one clean...