US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 14 for "Manufacture of a polymer seal for a wellbore downhole tool with dimensional mechanical property grading" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,060, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Manufacture of a polymer seal for a wellbore downhole tool with dimensional mechanical property grading" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, Texas), Chad William Glaesman (McKinney, Texas) and Anthony Phan (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a wellbore downhole tool, including providing a pre-polymer resin and processing the pre-polymer resin. Processing the pre-polymer resin includes applying directed energy from a directed energy source such that the pre-polymer resin is at least partially polymer...