US Patent Issued to Weatherford Technology Holdings on Aug. 11 for "Screen assembly having permeable handling area" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,030, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Screen assembly having permeable handling area" was invented by John S. Sladic (Katy, Texas) and Stephen McNamee (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravel pack assembly for a borehole has first and second joints and a foil. The basepipes of the joints connect end-to-end, and both of the basepipes have filters for filtering fluid passage from a borehole into bores of the basepipes. Transport tubes are disposed along the first and second joint, and a jumper tube expands across the connected ends of the basepipes and connects the transp...