ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,371, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Syntactic foam pressure housing" was invented by Thomas Hillman (Missouri City, Texas) and Christopher Powell (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for forming and using a pressure housing to protect a downhole tool in a wellbore include machining an initial syntactic foam body into a pressure housing structure and post-curing the pressure housing structure in a programmable oven at a time-temperature program to produce a post-cured syntactic foam structure. Methods for protecting a downhole tool in a wellbore include c...