US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 16 for "Density-based flow control configuration, method, and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,225, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Density-based flow control configuration, method, and system" was invented by Ping Duan (Cypress, Texas), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), John Wakefield (Cypress, Texas) and Daniel Ewing (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A density-based flow control configuration includes a housing and a first baffle having a first flow opening, a second baffle having a second flow opening adjacent the first baffle, one of the baffles being rotationally movable relative to the housing and to the other of the baffles, a ...