ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,097, issued on April 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Multilateral downhole assembly employing degradable material to couple its multilateral deflector assembly and running tool" was invented by Brian Williams Cho (Spring, Texas) and Jamie Revelle Weber (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multilateral downhole assembly, a well system, and a method. The multilateral downhole assembly, in one aspect, includes a multilateral deflector assembly, the multilateral deflector assembly including a deflector body having a deflector face and an opening extending therethrough, and a ru...