US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for condition monitoring of top drive internal blowout preventer valves" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,623, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for condition monitoring of top drive internal blowout preventer valves" was invented by Michael Raymond Netecke (Kristiansand, Norway), Rogelio Cabrera (Kristiansand, Norway) and Nephtali Gonzalez (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a top drive including a handling ring assembly including a main body, a main shaft that traverses the main body of the handling ring assembly, an internal blowout preventer (IBOP) valve, wherein the main shaft engages the IBOP valve, a two-piece actuator sleev...