US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 23 for "Reinforced swell packer for wellbores" (Singaporean, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,896, issued on June 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Reinforced swell packer for wellbores" was invented by Nithin Kumar Gupta Dachepally (Singapore), Ramya Priyadarsini Selvamurugan (Singapore) and Mohan Gunasekaran (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a swell packer is described, the swell packer comprising a swellable sealing element comprising one or more layers of a swellable material interlayered with a layer of non-swellable material, the combined layers of material wrapped around the outer surface of a conduit, wherein the swellable material is configure...