US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 18 for "Polymer blends for use in wellbore applications" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,484, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Polymer blends for use in wellbore applications" was invented by Sandeep Thatathil (Singapore), Shashwat Shukla (Singapore) and Arpana Singh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides elastomer blends comprising mixtures of partially fluorinated elastomers, such as tetrafluoroethylene propylene elastomers (FEPM or TFEP) and fluorocarbon rubbers, such as vinylidene fluoride-based elastomers (FKM or FEP). The elastomer blends can be prepared using two-roll mills, internal mixers, or other mixing technique and can be molde...