ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,683, issued on Sept. 9.
"Valve, method, and system" was invented by Marc Carriere (Calgary, Canada) and Justin Hibbs (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve, including a housing having a port, a valve member positioned to selectively, adjustably, and repeatably obstruct, unobstruct, and partially obstruct the port solely by interaction with an untethered object, an indexer operably connected to the valve member; and an object profile in operable contact with the indexer. A method for managing a wellbore, including dropping an object to land on the object seat of a valve, cycling the indexer, moving the valve member t...