US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 29 for "Shape memory foam screen in conjunction with shrouded over deformable chambers for wellbore compliance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,655, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Shape memory foam screen in conjunction with shrouded over deformable chambers for wellbore compliance" was invented by Ryan Novelen (Euless, Texas) and Stephen Greci (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable downhole device may be used for supporting a wellbore and as a flow/sand control device. The expandable downhole device is initially RIH in a compressed state. Once the expandable downhole device reaches a predetermined depth in the wellbore, the expandable downhole device is transitioned from the compressed state to an e...