US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 9 for "Expandable element assembly with external rigid support element to isolate well interval" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,678, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Expandable element assembly with external rigid support element to isolate well interval" was invented by Christian Reding (Houston), Marcus Ray Hudson (Pearland, Texas) and Wei Zhang (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable element isolation assembly and a well interval isolation device utilizing at least a pair of expandable element isolation assemblies to isolate a well interval are disclosed. An expandable element isolation assembly can comprise an expandable element, and at least one rigid support element that is located exte...