US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 7 for "Single sleeve downhole tool with detent pins for shifting" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,716, issued on April 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Single sleeve downhole tool with detent pins for shifting" was invented by Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool can include a body within a tubing string, a first component such as an outer mandrel, a detent pin connected to an inside of the first component, wherein the detent pin comprises a pin body and a spring located within the pin body, and a second component such as a sliding sleeve that moves in relation to the first component. The outside of the sliding sleeve includes a channel with a first...