ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,957, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Partially bonded seals for well systems" was invented by Shobeir Pirayeh Gar (Carrollton, Texas), Xiaoguang Allan Zhong (Sinpapore, Singapore), Yian Zhao (Singapore), Chee Sing Kelvin Loh (Singapore) and Abdolreza Gharesi (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various seals for wellbore systems include a partially bonded seal configured to be actuatable to provide a fluid seal between a first conduit and a second conduit positioned within a wellbore. The partially bonded seal may comprise a hanger body and a sealing element, the sealing element po...