US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 16 for "System and methodology for bypassing through an expandable metal packer" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,216, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and methodology for bypassing through an expandable metal packer" was invented by Dinesh R. Patel (Humble, Texas), Samuel Roselier (Bruz, France), Romain Neveu (Bruz, France), Robin Laupie (Bruz, France) and Louis Bazin (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 a tubing, sometimes referred to as a mandrel, and an expandable metal bladder secured around the...