ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,512, issued on May 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Fluid diode" was invented by Kenneth H Matthews III (Kingwood, Texas) and Michael T. Pelletier (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for a fluid diode. In some examples, a fluid diode can include a first fluid path for a first flow of fluid to traverse the fluid diode via a first flow direction and a second fluid path for a second flow of fluid to traverse the fluid diode via a second flow direction. The first flow direction can be associated with a first pressure drop and the second flow direction can be associa...