ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,398, issued on July 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Subsystem with a locking ring for coupling components in a wellbore" was invented by David McManus (Tulsa, Okla.), Ankit Kansagra (Vadodara, India) and Daniel Steven McWherter (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a subsystem with a first component having a set of tabs and a second component having a set of slots. The set of tabs can extend to a diameter larger than that of a first connector of the first component. The set of slots can extend to a diameter larger than that of a second connector of the second component. The...