US Patent Issued to Royal Completion Tools on Feb. 3 for "Retrievable packer capable of operating in the curve and horizontal of a wellbore" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,519, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Royal Completion Tools LLC (Houston).

"Retrievable packer capable of operating in the curve and horizontal of a wellbore" was invented by Zachary Silva (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore packer can be deployed and easily retrieved within a wellbore of vertical or horizontal orientation or in a transition orientation. The packer includes a bottom sub on a downhole portion and a shear sub within an inner cavity of the bottom sub. The shear sub has a depression in a wall of the shear sub, which aligns in a set position of the packer with a threaded hole through a wall of the bottom s...