ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,724, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).
"Inner bore coupling assembly" was invented by Arne Deiters (Celle, Germany) and Cord Simon Huber (Gehrden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting system secures a component in a tubular, which includes a compression element and an annular flow guide. The flow guide is attached to the component by a threaded connection. The compression collar and flow guide have complementary profiles on their respective inner and outer surfaces, which when the compression collar is coaxially urged along the outer surface of the flow guide, the compressio...