US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 17 for "Composite wellbore sealing device" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,849, issued on March 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Composite wellbore sealing device" was invented by Michael Linley Fripp (Singapore), Atharv Abhijit Naik (Singapore) and Muhammad Nur Adli Juhari (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are wellbore sealing devices. The wellbore sealing devices comprise a plug body, a sealing device component for coupling to the plug body, and a matrix material. In some examples, the sealing device component includes a reinforced region having reinforcement fibers and a preferential failure zone outside of the reinforcement region with reduced or omitted...