ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,939, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Baranko Environmental LLC.
"Oilfield tubing cleaning" was invented by Glenn Baranko (Dickinson, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of removing scale deposits from a used oilfield tube having first and second threaded ends, a coupling collar is unscrewed one or more rotations from a first threaded end about a longitudinal axis of the oilfield tube without detaching the coupling collar from the first threaded end. A spray of water is discharged through a spray tip of a lance. The spray tip is fed along the longitudinal axis from the collar to the second threaded end using a lance fee...