US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 5 for "Preventing loss of hydrocarbon well conveyance string upon unintended connector decoupling" (Ecuadorean, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,296, issued on May 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Preventing loss of hydrocarbon well conveyance string upon unintended connector decoupling" was invented by David McManus (Tulsa, Okla.), Daniel Steven McWherter (Tulsa, Okla.), Ankit Kansagra (Vadodara, India), Neudis Enrique Saez (Quito, Ecuador), Grant Walker Buchman (Tulsa, Okla.) and Joshua Wayne Webster (Jenks, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling device is installable to a connector of a hydrocarbon well tubing string to prevent a downhole loss of a portion of the tubing string upon an unintended decoupling of the connector. The connect...