US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Oct. 6 for "Garter spring including spacer elements" (Singaporean, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,672, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Garter spring including spacer elements" was invented by Andrew Wei Xue Toh (Singapore), Scott Wallace (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Ashish Khaparde (Singapore) and Anthony Phan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a garter spring, a downhole tool and a well system. The garter spring, in one aspect, includes a coiled spring member having an inside diameter (ID1) and an outside diameter (OD1). The garter spring, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a plurality of spaced balls located within the inside diameter (ID1) of the coiled...