US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Inertia damping systems and methods" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,164, issued on April 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Inertia damping systems and methods" was invented by Yuelin Shen (Spring, Texas), Mauro Caresta (Cambridge, Great Britain), Scott Richard Woolston (Spanish Fork, Utah) and Clint William Philbrick (Springville, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torsional damping system includes a housing having an interior space. An inertia ring is located in the interior space, and a torsion fluid is located between the inertia ring and the housing. The inertia ring is rotatably installed relative to the housing. As the housing oscillates, the inertia ring...