ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,527, issued on July 15, was assigned to Vertice Oil Tools Inc. (Missouri City, Texas).
"Methods and systems for a dissolvable plug" was invented by Mohamed Saraya (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding object positioned on a breakable stem, wherein slips are configured to be engaged, followed by the breakable stem breaking, performing a fracturing procedure above the object, and sliding the object on the stem based on flow back through the frac plug mandrel. The object may be part of the frac plug, and run in the hole along with the frac plug in a single run. This allows the well to be pressure tested, perforated...