US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Aug. 12 for "Safety valve, method, and system" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,354, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Safety valve, method, and system" was invented by Grant Thompson (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert safety valve, including a housing, a flow tube in the housing, a flapper to positions of the flow tube, an atmospheric chamber in the housing, a selectively openable valve to prevent or allow pressure communication between the chamber and an environment, the valve including a valve member, a valve seat, and an unseat member to move the valve member off the valve seat. A borehole system, including a preexisting safety valve havin...