US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 6 for "Energy release in energetic perforating devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,682, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Energy release in energetic perforating devices" was invented by James Marshall Barker (Alvarado, Texas), Jason Paul Metzger (Alvarado, Texas) and Christopher C. Hoelscher (Alvarado, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus managing energy release in energetic perforating devices, such as perforating guns, for example. In some embodiments, the methods comprise deploying the energetic perforating device having an explosive into a wellbore, removing air from an interior volume of the energetic perforating device, placing the energetic p...