US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Nov. 4 for "Slip anchor, method, and system" (Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,490, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Slip anchor, method, and system" was invented by Edward J. Kossa (Huffman, Texas), Gary L. Anderson (Dublin, Ohio), Christopher Young (Spring, Texas), Larry Urban (Santa Fe, Texas) and Frank Maenza (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slip body includes a first plurality of ramps a second plurality of ramps. An anchor, includes a first compression body, and a second compression body, at least one being movable relative to the other, and a slip body disposed between the first and second compression bodies. A method for anchoring a tool in a bor...