US Patent Issued to The WellBoss on March 17 for "Downhole tool and method of use" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,850, issued on March 17, was assigned to The WellBoss Co. LLC (Houston).

"Downhole tool and method of use" was invented by Gabriel A. Slup (Spring, Texas), Martin P. Coronado (Fulshear, Texas), Ryan D. Rasmussen (The Woodlands, Texas) and Chad Michael Erick Gibson (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool suitable for use in a wellbore, the tool having a cone, and a lower sleeve. The downhole tool includes an expansion sleeve, or a portion thereof, disposed around one end of the cone. After setting, the lower sleeve is engaged with the conc. leaving a remnant cone-sleeve component configured to plug a tubu...