ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,182, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"High expansion packer assembly" was invented by Susheel Kumar Gupta (Rosharon, Texas), Farshad Odakkal (Rosharon, Texas), Oscar V. Rodriguez (Rosharon, Texas), Richard James Windslow (Rosharon, Texas) and Henghua Jin (Rosharon, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packer assembly for use within a wellbore. The packer assembly may include a mandrel, a seal assembly disposed about the mandrel, and a deployment system disposed about the mandrel. The seal assembly may include a cup holder and a cup shaped sealing element coupled to the cup holde...