US Patent Issued to OPTIMUM PUMP on Aug. 12 for "Valve rod guides for bottom hole pump assemblies, and related methods and parts" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,330, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OPTIMUM PUMP LTD. (Alsike, Canada).

"Valve rod guides for bottom hole pump assemblies, and related methods and parts" was invented by Nathan Flynn (Alsike, Canada) and Derrik Meinczinger (Alsike, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottom hole pump (BHP) assembly for a reciprocating sucker rod in a production well has: a downhole fluid pump; a valve rod mounted to reciprocate within the downhole fluid pump, the valve rod having a sucker rod connector; and a valve rod guide mounted to the downhole fluid pump around the valve rod and connected to, in use, receive fluids into an internal fluid...