US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 2 for "Fully automated perforating gun" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,362, issued on June 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Fully automated perforating gun" was invented by Joseph Todd MacGillivray (Alvarado, Texas) and Christopher C. Hoelscher (Alvarado, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include a perforating gun configured for transport with an internal detonator, the perforating gun to be used in a wellbore proximate to one or more subsurface formations, the perforating gun comprising: a detonator assembly positioned proximate to a ballistic initiator end of the perforating gun, wherein the detonator assembly includes the detonator; and a detonati...