ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,369, issued on March 24, was assigned to Workover Solutions Inc. (Imperial, Pa.).

"Sealing system and method" was invented by Gunther HH von Gynz-Rekowski (Montgomery, Texas), Brandon Kaderka (Katy, Texas) and Kevin J. Rudy (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing system for fluidly sealing a portion of a wellbore including a housing, a rupture disc disposed within a housing inner bore, and a plug disposed within the housing inner bore. The rupture disc includes a base and a central portion, which extends across the housing inner bore to fluidly seal the housing inner bore in a sealed state. The plug fluidly seals th...