Patents by Inventor Dustin G. Howell

Dustin G. Howell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6076606
    Abstract: The present invention, in certain embodiments, discloses a whipstock system which is hydraulically settable in a tubular or wellbore and mechanically retrievable. In one aspect it is a "through-tubing" system. In certain aspects systems according to this invention have a concave to a lower end of which is secured an anchor housing bendable member, movable connection, or with an anchor body therein that is in fluid communication, via a flexible hose within the anchor housing, with a fluid channel running through the concave. An upper end of a mandrel is housed in a recess in the anchor body. The mandrel's lower end may extend out from the anchor housing. A setting slip is disposed below the anchor body within an opening in the anchor housing. A pusher sleeve below the slip is selectively displaced up by a piston below the pusher sleeve to push the slip out from the opening in the anchor housing to set against an interior of a tubular or of a wellbore. Fluid under pressure flows, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Bailey, Timothy L. Wilson, Dustin G. Howell