US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on June 24 for "Instrument panel for computing system" (Washington, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,032, issued on June 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Instrument panel for computing system" was invented by Steven William Fisher (Edmonds, Wash.), Kevin Doan (Seattle), Malgorzata Anna Blachnicka (Seattle) and Bryan Shadel (Gardnerville, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument panel includes a frame defining an opening, a plurality of cards, and an HMI. The cards have a front face, a rear face, one or more circuits, and a data interface on the rear face in communication with the circuits. The cards include one or more first cards and one or more second cards. The first cards front face h...