ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,110, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).
"Lightweight flow module" was invented by Paul L. Riley (Houston), Ramu Valliappan Manickam (Singapore), Wei Soung Tan (Singapore), May-Ling Rachel Ho (Singapore) and Guoxiang Calvin Wu (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control module includes an inlet hub coupled to a first flow passage having a first flow bore, a flow meter associated with the first flow bore and positioned for top-down fluid flow, a choke disposed in a second flow passage having a second flow bore, the second flow passage coupled to a distal end of the first flow passage, and a...