US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 19 for "High expansion aggregate seal" (British, Emirati, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,084, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"High expansion aggregate seal" was invented by Oliver Fry (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Ilja Kivko (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Alexander Rainy Brown (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Robin Jonathan McGowan (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Gareth Edward George Brown (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Alexander Trushin (Perth, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plugging tool, comprises a tool mandrel adapted to traverse an interior of a wellbore or well tubular. The mandrel has a seal section thereon, the seal section comprising longitudinally spaced apart ...