US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on March 4 for "Force balanced reciprocating valve" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,564, issued on March 4, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Force balanced reciprocating valve" was invented by Volker Peters (Wienhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating pressure pulses includes a valve member disposed in a fluid passageway, the fluid passageway including a restriction, the valve member movable by an actuator relative to the restriction to generate a pressure pulse in a fluid in the fluid passageway based on varying a relative position between the valve member and the restriction and creating a differential pressure across the fluid passageway, the differen...