US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 30 for "Flow control tool, method and system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,936, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Flow control tool, method and system" was invented by Wilfred Provost (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control tool includes a housing, a mandrel in the housing, the mandrel supporting a plurality flow control units (FCU), and a seal between the housing and the mandrel. A method for managing flow includes shifting a mandrel having a plurality of Flow Control Units (FCU) into a position that causes an FCU of the plurality of FCUs to be in an operational position, and then shifting a different FCU of the plurality of FCUs int...