US Patent Issued to FRANK'S INTERNATIONAL on March 18 for "Control line clamp installation system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,941, issued on March 18, was assigned to FRANK'S INTERNATIONAL LLC (Houston).

"Control line clamp installation system" was invented by Brian David Begnaud (Lafayette, La.), Dougal Hugo Brown (Scotland, Great Britain) and Malcolm Gray-Stephens (Laurencekirk, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation system for installing a control line clamp onto a tubular string includes a first load plate, a second load plate that is offset from the first load plate, the first and second load plates being configured to engage a first clamp member and a second clamp member, respectively, positioned on a tubular string, a retention...