US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 19 for "Downhole pump fluid throttling device" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,097, issued on May 19, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Downhole pump fluid throttling device" was invented by Donn Jason Brown (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth (Tulsa, Okla.) and Dezhi Zheng (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for controlling fluid flow through a downhole pump system in a borehole includes moving, via a downhole pump residing below a tubular in the borehole, a first fluid through the tubular, wherein the first fluid includes a compressible fluid. The method may further include increasing an intake pressure of the downhole pump while th...