ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,858, issued on March 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Compliant screen with flow restrictive portions to reduce cross flow of wellbore fluids" was invented by Gordon McLeary (Carrollton, Texas), Ryan M. Novelen (Carrollton, Texas), Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas), David Symon Grant (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Jalpan Piyush Dave (Singapore), Scott Elliott Wallace (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Andrew David James Cameron (Aberdeen, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compliant screens and methods of preventing crossflow through the compliant screen in a well completion. Example complian...