US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Shift set packer" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,762, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Shift set packer" was invented by Mitchel Stretch (Calgary, Canada), Sean Borschneck (Calgary, Canada), Sanjay Menon (Calgary, Canada) and Matthew McCarthy (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of setting a packer assembly within a wellbore in a steam injection system. The packer assembly isolates portions of the wellbore. The packer assembly comprising a body. The body comprising a ramp and a sealing element positioned adjacent the ramp. A setting collet operable to force the sealing element along the ramp to...