US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 10 for "Blowout preventer systems and methods" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,180, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar land, Texas).

"Blowout preventer systems and methods" was invented by Pandeeswaran Krishnasamy (Kattunaickanpatti, India), Pranav Shukla (Coimbatore, India), Prabhu Jagadesan (Sugar Land, Texas), Sangameshwar Shreekkar (Coimbatore, India) and Arunima Cr (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blowout preventer (BOP) includes a BOP housing. The BOP also includes a bonnet housing having a bonnet flange and a bonnet body with an actuator configured to drive a ram within the BOP housing. The BOP further includes multiple ram change assemblies configu...