US Patent Issued on Oct. 21 for "System and method for determining plunger velocity using a downhole card for diagnostics and control of a rod-pumped well" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,876, issued on Oct. 21.

"System and method for determining plunger velocity using a downhole card for diagnostics and control of a rod-pumped well" was invented by Russell J. Messer (Tomball, Texas) and John M. Raglin (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining plunger velocity in a rod pumped well using position data from a downhole card to determine plunger velocity during a pump stroke and plotting normalized plunger velocity over a downhole card."

The patent was filed on July 8, 2024, under Application No. 18/766,510.

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