ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,338, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Downhole fluid sampling system with hydraulic actuation" was invented by Christian Reding (Houston), James Martin Price (Cypress, Texas), Anthony Herman van Zuilekom (Houston), Matthew L. Lee (Tomball, Texas), David Earl Ball (Stafford, Texas), Marcus Ray Hudson (Pearland, Texas), James Cernosek (Richmond, Texas) and Michael Andrew Pascual (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole fluid sampling system with hydraulic actuation can be used to collect one or more samples of formation fluid during a well operation. The sampling system ca...