US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on July 1 for "Anti-rotation coupling for use in a downhole assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,102, issued on July 1, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Anti-rotation coupling for use in a downhole assembly" was invented by Detlev Benedict (Celle, Germany), Volker Peters (Celle, Germany), Hanno Reckmann (Celle, Germany) and Ingo Roders (Celle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole assembly that includes tubulars rotationally coupled to one another. An interface is between adjacent tubulars that makes up at least a portion of the rotational coupling. Certain surfaces of adjacent tubulars come into contact with one another when adjacent tubulars are rotationally coupled; and which are def...