ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,493, issued on Nov. 4.
"Seal energization assembly, method, and system" was invented by Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas) and Emerson Nunez Moran (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal energization assembly, including a seal, a setting arrangement in operative contact with the seal, and a set energy compensation device disposed in operative contact with the seal and add energy to the setting arrangement responsive to a falling environmental temperature. A method for maintaining energy in a seal during temperature down cycling, including automatically compensating for temperature related redu...