US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Jan. 27 for "Splice free feedthrough mechanical packer" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,968, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Splice free feedthrough mechanical packer" was invented by Ibrahim El Mallawany (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Eddie Perez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of an apparatus and method related to a splice-free feedthrough mechanical packer. In one embodiment, an apparatus to be positioned in a wellbore comprises a packer mandrel; and a packing element assembly including at least a packing element and an interior channel; wherein a continuous control line is configured to be installed external to the ...