US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 14 for "Pulse generation of viscous fluids with a mud motor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,292, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Pulse generation of viscous fluids with a mud motor" was invented by Koustubh Kumbhar (Houston) and Harley Wayne Jones II (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a downhole tool assembly, that includes a rotary mechanism, a pulsing mechanism, that includes a rotary disc in mechanical communication with the rotary mechanism, where a window of the rotary disc periodically aligns with a corresponding window of the downhole tool assembly to generate a pressure pulse based on a periodicity of the rotary mec...