US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on March 25 for "Borehole sealing with temperature control, method, and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,837, issued on March 25, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Borehole sealing with temperature control, method, and system" was invented by Daniel Ewing (Katy, Texas), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Anil Sadana (Houston), Anton Kovalchuk (Houston), Ping Duan (Cypress, Texas) and Jason Harper (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal includes a seal body and a temperature controller in thermal communication with the seal material. A method for controlling temperature of a seal including applying an energy source to the temperature controller, and generating a temperature difference in the...