US Patent Issued to CHAMPIONX on Nov. 4 for "Valve assemblies, valve assemblies for use with downhole pumps and related methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,630, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CHAMPIONX LLC (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Valve assemblies, valve assemblies for use with downhole pumps and related methods" was invented by Ramamurthy Narasimhan (Dallas), Juan Felipe Correa Pugliese (Fort Worth, Texas), Riyadh Salloom (Arlington, Texas), Randy De Werff (Burleson, Texas), Bradley C. Rogers (Burleson, Texas), Jimmy Kemp (Levelland, Texas) and Matthew Bishop (Burleson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Valve assemblies and related pumps and methods may include an insert disposed in an internal flow path of a casing where an outer surface of the insert is fixedly engaged with an inne...