US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 28 for "Shaped charge with reactive material" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,149, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Shaped charge with reactive material" was invented by Joseph Todd MacGillivray (Alvarado, Texas), Jason Paul Metzger (Alvarado, Texas) and Stuart Michael Wood (Alvarado, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include an apparatus comprising an explosive material configured to detonate; a liner in contact with the explosive material, the liner configured to, after detonation of the explosive material, form jets to perforate a tubular disposed in a subsurface borehole; a reactive material configured to release energy in response to d...