US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 27 for "System and methodology for providing bypass through an expandable metal packer" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,902, issued on May 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and methodology for providing bypass through an expandable metal packer" was invented by Samuel Roselier (Bruz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates improved actuation and use of packers which may be disposed along a well string placed in a borehole, e.g. a wellbore. Each packer may be constructed with or mounted about a tubing and may further comprise a mandrel disposed about or integrally formed with the tubing. The packer may further comprise a sealing element mounted about an expandable metal bladder which, i...