US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 7 for "Housing joints with compression loaded graphite seals for downhole ESP use" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,804, issued on April 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Housing joints with compression loaded graphite seals for downhole ESP use" was invented by Michael Rimmer (Frimley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal mechanism for an electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly comprising a graphite ring installed on a first component with an installation configuration and a sealing configuration. The graphite ring is installed on an external sealing surface of a first component. An internal sealing surface of a second component is aligned with the graphite ring. An activation force transitions the gr...