ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,289, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ROKK ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Multilateral technologies for wellbores" was invented by Daniel J. Themig (Calgary, Canada), Jody R. McGlothen (Brighton, Colo.) and Jim Fehr (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for facilitating the placement of lateral liners from a main casing including a device for positioning a lateral liner in a lateral wellbore accessed through a window having a V-shaped downhole end, the liner junction placement device comprising: a lateral liner biasing member configured to be positioned between the lateral liner and the lateral ...