US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 23 for "Downhole tool including a locking dog" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,891, issued on June 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole tool including a locking dog" was invented by Lars Petter Larsen (Stavanger, Norway), Borisa Lajesic (Stavanger, Norway), Morten Falnes (Stavanger, Norway) and Vegard Dyrseth (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a downhole tool, a well system, and a method for forming a well system. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a latch collet including a collet body, the collet body having a collet body slot on a radial interior surface thereof and a plurality of collet fingers, as well as a mandrel positioned within th...