ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,813, issued on March 3, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Apparatus to connect cables inside coiled tubing and connect coiled tubing" was invented by Koustubh Kumbhar (Spring, Texas), Harley Wayne Jones (Duncan, Okla.) and Earl Don Webb (Wilson, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coiled tubing system includes sections of coiled tubing that include an electrical cable and at least one electrical male wet stab connector. Each male connector includes a male fluid pathway and secures a section of electrical cable such that the electrical cable is isolated from the male fluid pathway. The system also include...