US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Nov. 25 for "Actuating a downhole device with a reactive metal" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,373, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Actuating a downhole device with a reactive metal" was invented by Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, Texas) and Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for actuating a downhole device in a wellbore. An example of the method is positioning a downhole device in a wellbore, the downhole device comprising a reactive metal and a reaction-inducing fluid; wherein the reaction-inducing fluid is isolated from the reactive metal. The method further includes removing the isolation of the reactive metal such that it reacts...