US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 28 for "Mechanical shaft stop in a rotating machine" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,880, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Mechanical shaft stop in a rotating machine" was invented by Gerald Glen Goshorn (Tulsa, Okla.), Donn J. Brown (Tulsa, Okla.) and Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating machine. The rotating machine comprises a tubular housing; a drive shaft disposed at least partly inside the tubular housing; a component disposed inside of the tubular housing that is coupled to the drive shaft and configured to do work as the drive shaft rotates; and a shaft stop assembly coupled to the drive shaft comprising a collet dispo...