ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,614, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"High performance fluoroelastomer bonded seal for downhole applications" was invented by Mark Anderson (Pearland, Texas), Jushik Yun (Sugar Land, Texas), John Zarnowiecki (Houston) and Aurelien Mainy (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bonded seal includes a metal alloy substrate, a bonding agent, and a perfluoroelastomer bonded to at least a portion of the metal alloy substrate via the bonding agent."
The patent was filed on March 20, 2019, under Application No. 16/982,078.
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