US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 12 for "Remotely activated multi-cycle wellbore cleaning tool" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,614, issued on May 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Remotely activated multi-cycle wellbore cleaning tool" was invented by Jon-Howard Elliott Hanson (Dallas), Kyle Wayne Davis (Celina, Texas), Peter Reid Maher (Lafayette, La.), Timothy Simmonds (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Alan Pace (Inverbervie, Great Britain) and Gavin Munro (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool for cleaning a wellbore, the tool including a tool body having a flowpath therethrough. A liquid is configured to flow through the flowpath and may have an intermittent flow pattern. An inner sleeve positioned within the to...