US Patent Issued to Vertice Oil Tools on March 24 for "Methods and systems for a frac plug" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,362, issued on March 24, was assigned to Vertice Oil Tools Inc. (Missouri City, Texas).

"Methods and systems for a frac plug" was invented by Mohamed Saraya (Sugar Land, Texas), Stephen Parks (Houston) and Mike Lo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptor kit is configured to limit the amount of shear pins/metal/material left downhole after the frac plug is set and the setting tool is removed from the hole. More specifically, embodiments may utilize a setting sleeve that is configured to set the frac plug."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2025, under Application No. 19/089,446.

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