US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Aug. 12 for "Flexible coupler for reducing torsional oscillations" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,328, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Flexible coupler for reducing torsional oscillations" was invented by Hanno Reckmann (Nienhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a coupling device includes an elongated coupler body configured to be deployed at a borehole string and connected to a downhole component of a borehole string. The coupler body has a longitudinal axis, and the coupler body has a torsional stiffness sufficient to transmit rotational motion to the connected downhole component. The coupling device also includes at least one recess formed in a wall o...