US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 16 for "Downhole tool employing a whipstock assembly, packer assembly and lower completion" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,691, issued on June 16, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole tool employing a whipstock assembly, packer assembly and lower completion" was invented by Steffen Helgesen Van der Veen (Stavanger, Norway) and Luke Holderman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided, in one aspect, is a downhole tool, a well system, and a method. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a whipstock assembly, the whipstock assembly including a whipface. The downhole tool, in one aspect, further includes a packer assembly coupled to the whipstock assembly, the packer assembly including a packer element configured t...