US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Dec. 9 for "Fiber optic monitoring in chemical injection and gas lift systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,606, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Fiber optic monitoring in chemical injection and gas lift systems" was invented by Jason Harper (Cypress, Texas), Thomas McClain Scott (Cypress, Texas) and Zhi Yong He (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead, including a fluid injection system disposed in the wellhead, a fiber injection system disposed in the wellhead and operably connected to the fluid injection system to inject fiber into the fluid injection system. A multimodal fluid injection valve, including a body having a check valve therein, a side pocket physically and fl...