ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,303, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Expandable packer systems and methods" was invented by Abdulla Faleh Aldossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Olalekan Akiode (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ossama Sehsah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packer system includes an expandable packer disposed on a casing. The expandable packer is formed from a metal, includes one or more expandable wall portions that expand in response to a threshold pressure that is greater than a predetermined maximum drilling pressure, and includes an ignition component that sparks a chemical powd...