US Patent Issued to Hunting Titan on Oct. 21 for "Power charge ignition" (Texas, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,245, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hunting Titan Inc. (Pampa, Texas).

"Power charge ignition" was invented by Ty Stovall (Ennis, Texas), Jeffrey Wayne Smith (St. Charles, Mo.), Johnny Covalt (Burleson, Texas) and Zachary James Taylor (Waxahachie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for igniting a power charge in downhole wellbore using an ignition propellant mixed with a main propellant, the ignition propellant may be concentrated at the first end of a housing where it is the majority propellant and then gradually mix with the main propellant, transitioning to a majority of the main propellant."

The pate...