US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, E-FLOW CONTROL on April 29 for "Wirelessly activated well system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,856, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and E-FLOW CONTROL LTD (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

"Wirelessly activated well system" was invented by Michael Affleck (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Tom Dixon (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well system includes a local controller communicably coupled to a hydraulic diverter configured to control a well shut-in assembly at a well site operable to shut in a wellbore based on a command from the local controller or to shut in or open the wellbore based on a command from a control panel at or in a vicinity of the well si...