US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on July 14 for "Wellbore barrier, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,413, issued on July 14, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Wellbore barrier, method of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same" was invented by Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Anil Sadana (Houston) and John Wakefield (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synergistic barrier formation, including a matrix material with expandable metal particles dispersed homogeneously therein. A method of forming a synergistic barrier formation, including forming a wellbore barrier on a conduit disposed in a wellbore; the wellbore barrier including expandable metal particles, and exposing the wellbore ...