US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 21 for "Multilateral whipstock assembly employing degradable material" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,096, issued on April 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Multilateral whipstock assembly employing degradable material" 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 whipstock assembly, a well system, and a method. The multilateral whipstock assembly, in one aspect, includes a whipstock body, the whipstock body having a whipface and an opening extending therethrough, and degradable material located in the opening, the degradable material configured to axially fix a smaller assembly of a two part mill...