US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Sept. 9 for "Seal assembly, and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,675, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Seal assembly, and system" was invented by Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Emerson Nunez (Cypress, Texas) and Jason Harper (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly, including a seal including a first lattice impregnated with a conformable resilient material, a backup including a second lattice impregnated with a conformable resilient material, the second lattice having a greater rigidity than the first lattice. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the ...