ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,280, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for cementing casing and sealing a hanger in a wellhead housing" was invented by Kyle Sommerfeld (Houston), Andrew Sanders (Houston), Leonard Vogel (Houston) and Dennis Nguyen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead includes a wellhead housing, a hanger configured to support a casing, and multiple passages formed in or along the wellhead housing, through the hanger, external to the wellhead housing, or any combination thereof. The wellhead also includes at least one movable component configured to move relative to the multip...