US Patent Issued to Vertice Oil Tools on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems for a frac plug" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,611, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Vertice Oil Tools Inc. (Missouri City, Texas).

"Methods and systems for a frac plug" was invented by Mohamed Saraya (Sugar Land, Texas) and Mike Lo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frac plug with an object run in hole within a collet. Responsive to activating the collet or expandable element, the collet may slide out of the frac plug and expand to allow the object to be positioned across an inner diameter of the shorty plug, wherein the frac plug includes a bottom, and the expandable element is directly and temporarily coupled to the bottom."

The patent was filed on Feb. 25, 2025, under...