US Patent Issued to Hunting Energy Services on March 25 for "Threaded and coupled tubular connection incorporating a seal ring and method of make-up" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,068, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hunting Energy Services LLC (Houston).

"Threaded and coupled tubular connection incorporating a seal ring and method of make-up" was invented by Ryan Gholamreza Ghasemi (Houston), Aaron Walsh (Houston) and Stephen Harvey (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which threaded sections of oil field pipe are connected to form a coupled and sealed tubular connection having proper sealing positioning at proper make-up torque. A tubular coupling has box ends and an internal mid region which forms interior shoulder regions. A seal ring is received on the mid region and mates with the end...