US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 9 for "Toe sleeves and methods of use" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,702, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Toe sleeves and methods of use" was invented by Sean Canning (Carrollton, Texas), Joseph Ray Collins (Carrollton, Texas) and Daniel Keith Moeller (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary toe sleeve embodiments, for example for hydrocarbon wellbore casing, can have a closure mechanism with at least two different operations for opening. For example, the closure mechanism may include a degradable element and a non-degradable element. The degradable element may be configured to maintain closure of the toe sleeve during pressure testin...