US Patent Issued to HYDRIL on July 22 for "Wedge thread connection for tubular goods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,123, issued on July 22, was assigned to HYDRIL COMPANY (Houston).

"Wedge thread connection for tubular goods" was invented by Jonathan Robert Breen (Houston), David Mutis Rueda (Houston) and Andrew Henry Tate (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular connection includes a first joint of casing having an integral box end with an internal female wedge threaded zone having wedge threads disposed on a portion of the integral box end, and a second joint of casing having an integral pin end with an external male wedge threaded zone having wedge threads disposed on a portion of the integral pin end. The external male wedge threads e...