US Patent Issued to OneSubsea IP UK on June 3 for "Oilfield production particulate monitoring assembly" (Norwegian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,777, issued on June 3, was assigned to OneSubsea IP UK Ltd. (London).

"Oilfield production particulate monitoring assembly" was invented by Rolf Rustad (Sandsli, Norway), Jean Francois Noel (Sandsli, Norway), Emmanuel Lagrand (Sandsli, Norway), Erlend Bjoerndal (Sandsli, Norway), Alexandre Lupeau (Sandsli, Norway) and Cheng-Gang Xie (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for monitoring particulate in a production fluid. The assembly supports routing of production fluid through a restriction and to a strategically located detector downstream and adjacent the restriction. Further, the detector incorporates acoustic attenu...