ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,598, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Anti-preset mechanism for production packers" was invented by Mohammad Abdul Rashid (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations include a packer comprising: an upper mandrel; at least one seal coupled with the upper mandrel and configured to radially expand into a casing of a wellbore; a prop configured to axially traverse, in response to hydraulic pressure, along the upper mandrel and cause the seal to radially expand; at least one shear screw configured to hold the prop stationary and in contact with the upper mandrel until shear...