US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 8 for "Adjustable screen size using interchangeable shrouds" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,608, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Adjustable screen size using interchangeable shrouds" was invented by Ryan Novelen (Euless, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well screen assembly may be used for flow and sand control in a tubing string within the wellbore in downhole operations. The well screen assembly includes at least two filtration layers are disposed around a base pipe. Each filtration layer is configured to filter particulates from the fluid as the fluid flows through the filtration layers and into a bore of the base pipe. Additionally, outer shrouds are disposed about r...