US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Holdings on June 30 for "Downhole shoe track tool, method, and system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,034, issued on June 30, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Downhole shoe track tool, method, and system" was invented by Anders Gundersen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole shoe track tool, including a housing, a wiper plug landing profile disposed in the housing, a check valve disposed in the housing, and a surge suppressor configured to flow fluid axially, the suppressor disposed in the housing. A method for protecting a formation from hydraulic shock including applying pressure to the tool, the pressure resulting in surge, and suppressing the surge in the surge suppressor. A wellbore system, incl...