US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 5 for "Interval control valve with modular screens downhole in a wellbore" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,310, issued on May 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Interval control valve with modular screens downhole in a wellbore" was invented by Rhett Bradford Avant (Houston), Andrew Penno (Singapore) and Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a tubing string, a filter screen, and an interval control valve deployed downhole in a wellbore. The tubing string may not have perforations. A first annulus may be formed between an exterior of the tubing string and a subterranean formation. The filter screen can be coupled to the exterior of the tubing string and can f...