ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,185, issued on April 29, was assigned to Oxy USA Inc. (Houston).
"System and methods for managing oil and gas production equipment" was invented by Terrell L. Rowe (Houston), John E. Stachowiak Jr. (Houston), Oscar Martinez (Houston) and Jason W. Bailey (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing well production equipment, the system comprising a) an RFID tag reader associated with a production well within a production well field, said RFID tag reader being positioned to read RFID tags associated with well production equipment as the well production equipment is run into said production well; and b) a data processing...