US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 9 for "Using fluid pill for heat transfer downhole" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,685, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Using fluid pill for heat transfer downhole" was invented by Christian Reding (Houston), David Earl Ball (Stafford, Texas), Marcus Ray Hudson (Pearland, Texas), James Cernosek (Richmond, Texas) and Jay Deville (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cooling at least a portion of a downhole tool located within a drilled wellbore using a fluid pill configured to transfer heat away from a heat-generating segment of the downhole tool. The downhole tool may be a wireline logging tool. The fluid pill can comprise at least one fluid coola...