US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "Combined actuation of slips and packer sealing element" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,861, issued on April 29, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Combined actuation of slips and packer sealing element" was invented by Farhan Ahmed Omer (Guadalupe NL, Mexico), Susan Wu (Rosharon, Texas), Thomas Eric Dudley (Rosharon, Texas), Yiming Fan (Rosharon, Texas), Weiming Lan (Rosharon, Texas) and Nitin Verroju (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates actuation of a packer to a sealing and gripping position along a borehole. The packer includes a packer element structure mounted about a center structure. The packer element structure includes a sealing element mounted...