US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 1 for "Remote locking system for a blowout preventer" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,113, issued on July 1, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Remote locking system for a blowout preventer" was invented by Sebastien Poveda (Lespignan, France), Jean-Luc Pujol (Quarante, France) and Nathaniel Pettibone (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote locking system for a blowout preventer (BOP) includes a locking mechanism configured to move to adjust the remote locking system between an unlocked configuration in which the remote locking system enables movement of a ram of the BOP and a locked configuration in which the remote locking system blocks movement of the ram of the BOP. The rem...