ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,243, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"System and method for valve greasing in a well tree" was invented by Mark Viator (Houston), Yang Chen (Houston), Payal Desai (Houston), Aleem Aman Khokhar (Spring, Texas), Nivedita Sharma (Noida, India) and Jeffery Traylor (Odessa, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates greasing of valves on a well tree, e.g. a frac tree, according to a simple process which enables selected, individual valves to be greased when desired. In some applications, the greasing process may be automated and controlled via a greasing control system. According t...