US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 23 for "Subsurface safety valve including an electropermanent magnet and target" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,900, issued on June 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Subsurface safety valve including an electropermanent magnet and target" was invented by Ibrahim El Mallawany (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a magnet for use with an SSSV, an SSSV, a well system, and a method. The magnet, in one aspect, includes an electropermanent magnet. The magnet, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a self-powered protection circuit coupled to the electropermanent magnet, the self-powered protection circuit configured to switch the electropermanent magnet to the OFF state when the...