US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on July 29 for "Actuator, method, and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,970, issued on July 29, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Actuator, method, and system" was invented by YingQing Xu (Tomball, Texas), Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Matthew D. Solfronk (Katy, Texas) and Todd Christopher Jackson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator, including a housing having a flow conduit therethrough, a pressure balanced poppet disposed in the housing, initially preventing flow through the housing, and a heat evolving composition disposed to move the poppet by fluid heating to cease preventing flow through the housing upon ignition of the heat evolving composition. A metho...