US Patent Issued to Weatherford Technology Holdings on July 29 for "Intensifying setting tool for packer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,961, issued on July 29, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Intensifying setting tool for packer" was invented by Justin D. Gorhum (Houston) and Frank D. Kalb (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A setting tool disposed on tubing runs a packer into casing. During a setting process, a plug is engaged on a seat of an intensifying piston disposed in the tool. Tubing pressure applied against the seated plug moves the intensifying piston, which produces intensified pressure on fluid in a first volume of the intensifying piston communicated to a second volume of a setting piston. In response, the setti...