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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2011
Applicants:

Randall V. Guest, Spring, TX (US);

Soma Chakraborty, Houston, TX (US);

Gaurav Agrawal, Aurora, CO (US);

Don C. Cox, Roanoake, TX (US);

Xiao Wei Wang, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Randall V. Guest, Spring, TX (US);

Soma Chakraborty, Houston, TX (US);

Gaurav Agrawal, Aurora, CO (US);

Don C. Cox, Roanoake, TX (US);

Xiao Wei Wang, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 36/00 (2006.01); E21B 33/12 (2006.01); E21B 23/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of deploying a downhole article comprising a shape memory material, the shape memory material comprising a nanoparticle having greater thermal conductivity than an identical shape memory material but without the nanoparticle; the method comprising heating the article while in a compacted state to change the article to a non-compacted state. A method of deploying the downhole article where the article is a packer element is also disclosed.


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