ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,047, issued on June 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Electric submersible pump (ESP) two-phase processor" was invented by Donn J. Brown (Tulsa, Okla.), Laura Osorio Ojeda (Tulsa, Okla.) and Trevor Alan Kopecky (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor having a first drive shaft; a seal unit having a second drive shaft coupled to the first drive shaft of the electric motor and disposed uphole of the electric motor; a first gas separator having a third drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft and disposed up...