US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S. A.-PETROBRAS on Dec. 30 for "Device for centring and/or pulling a tool in a pipeline" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,949, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S. A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"Device for centring and/or pulling a tool in a pipeline" was invented by Hugo Francisco Lisboa Santos (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Ney Robinson Salvi Dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Igor Mendes Ursine Krettli (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Hardy Leonardo Da Cunha Pereira Pinto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Lincoln Homero Thome Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Mauricio Galassi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for centring and pulling a tool in a pipeline, the device comprisi...