ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,616, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to InflowControl AS (Porsgrunn, Norway).
"Flow control device and method" was invented by Vidar Mathiesen (Porsgrunn, Norway), Haavard Aakre (Skien, Norway) and Bjornar Werswick (Langesund, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid flow control device for establishing a controllable fluid communication between an external fluid reservoir and a base pipe constituting part of a production string, as well as a production string and a method using such a fluid flow control device. The fluid flow control device comprises a primary flow path arranged inside a fluid control device housing, a secondar...