US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on June 10 for "Inflow control device, method and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,071, issued on June 10, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Inflow control device, method and system" was invented by Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Bin Zhu (Houston), Daniel Ewing (Katy, Texas), Rowland Moffatt (Humble, Texas) and John Wakefield (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflow control device (ICD), including a hydrocyclonic device having a plurality of pressure taps therein and a valve responsive to differential pressure of the plurality of pressure taps. An inflow control device (ICD) including a switch having a primary flow inlet and a primary f...