Patents by Inventor Lakhena Yong

Lakhena Yong 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).

  • Interventionless frangible disk isolation tool
    Patent number: 10887153
    Abstract: A downhole pressure isolation tool is disclosed for use in a tubing string or casing string. The tool includes a frangible disk or seal within a housing having a bore. The disk has a dome section and a cylinder section and the dome of the disk is transverse to the bore. A piston is located between the housing and the cylinder of the disk, the piston movable between a first position and a second position, the second position, engaging a set of fingers which push into the cylinder of the disc to break it, causing the entire disk the cause and the entire disk to fail. A rupturable membrane is provided which, when it ruptures places the piston in fluid communication with a fluid within the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Magnum Oil Tools International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lakhena Yong, W. Lynn Frazier
  • INTERVENTIONLESS FRANGIBLE DISK ISOLATION TOOL
    Publication number: 20180324026
    Abstract: A downhole pressure isolation tool is disclosed for use in a tubing string or casing string. The tool includes a frangible disk or seal within a housing having a bore. The disk has a dome section and a cylinder section and the dome of the disk is transverse to the bore. A piston is located between the housing and the cylinder of the disk, the piston movable between a first position and a second position, the second position, engaging a set of fingers which push into the cylinder of the disc to break it, causing the entire disk the cause and the entire disk to fail. A rupturable membrane is provided which, when it ruptures places the piston in fluid communication with a fluid within the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: LAKHENA YONG, W. LYNN FRAZIER
  • Interventionless frangible disk isolation tool
    Patent number: 10107070
    Abstract: A downhole pressure isolation tool is disclosed for use in a tubing string or casing string. The tool includes a frangible disk or seal within a housing having a bore. The disk has a dome section and a cylinder section and the dome of the disk is transverse to the bore. A piston is located between the housing and the cylinder of the disk, the piston movable between a first position and a second position, the second position, engaging a set of fingers which push into the cylinder of the disc to break it, causing the entire disk the cause and the entire disk to fail. A rupturable membrane is provided which, when it ruptures places the piston in fluid communication with a fluid within the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MAGNUM OIL TOOLS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Lakhena Yong, W. Lynn Frazier
  • INTERVENTIONLESS FRANGIBLE DISK ISOLATION TOOL
    Publication number: 20170022783
    Abstract: A downhole pressure isolation tool is disclosed for use in a tubing string or casing string. The tool includes a frangible disk or seal within a housing having a bore. The disk has a dome section and a cylinder section and the dome of the disk is transverse to the bore. A piston is located between the housing and the cylinder of the disk, the piston movable between a first position and a second position, the second position, engaging a set of fingers which push into the cylinder of the disc to break it, causing the entire disk the cause and the entire disk to fail. A rupturable membrane is provided which, when it ruptures places the piston in fluid communication with a fluid within the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Lakhena Yong, W. Lynn Frazier