ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,477, issued on May 20, was assigned to Vertice Oil Tools Inc. (Missouri City, Texas).
"Methods and systems for a frac plug" was invented by Mike Lo (Houston) and Mohamed Saraya (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilizing threads and coupling mechanisms to selectively secure slips and cones directly to a mandrel, wherein a distal end of the lower slips includes projections configured to interface with depressions within a cap of the frac plug to limit the relative rotation of the slips."
The patent was filed on March 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/129,459.
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