US Patent Issued to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY on May 13 for "Modular managed pressure drilling choke system" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,704, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY Co. (Fort Smith, Ark.).

"Modular managed pressure drilling choke system" was invented by Martyn Parker (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Benjamin Micah Spahn (Alma, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The modular managed pressured drilling system provides multiple skids with individual chokes and PRVs on the skids. These skids secure to one another to construct a modular MPD system that provides the proper equipment for the drilling operation. An inlet flow junction and an outlet flow junction are secured to each skid. The flow junctions provide multiple ports to provide different path...