US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 18 for "Ratcheting setting tool for an expandable seal in a wellbore" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,795, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Ratcheting setting tool for an expandable seal in a wellbore" was invented by Jalpan Piyush Dave (Singapore), Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Scott E. Wallace (Singapore) and Brandon T. Least (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ratcheting setting tool can use wellbore fluid to inflate expandable seals positioned downhole in a wellbore. For example, the ratcheting setting tool can include a piston within a first chamber. The piston can move from a first position to a second position in the first chamber when a pressure is applied t...