US Patent Issued to GRANT PRIDECO on June 3 for "Hands-free gooseneck and hands-free gooseneck flow spool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,208, issued on June 3, was assigned to GRANT PRIDECO INC. (Houston).

"Hands-free gooseneck and hands-free gooseneck flow spool" was invented by Austin Johnson (The Woodlands, Texas), Justin Fraczek (Spring, Texas) and Alexander John MacGregor (Kirkcudbright, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hands-free gooseneck flow spool includes a mandrel, a hands-free gooseneck receiver fixedly attached to the mandrel, and a hands-free gooseneck removably attached to the hands-free gooseneck receiver. The hands-free gooseneck receiver includes a lockable gooseneck receiver including a gooseneck receiver end fluidly connected to a mand...