ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,542, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Autonomous inflow control device system and method" was invented by Aleksandar Rudic (Houston), Gocha Chochua (Sugar Land, Texas), Amrendra Kumar (Missouri City, Texas), Joshua Montanez (Houston) and Michael Dean Langlais (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates the inflow of desired fluids into a downhole well completion while restricting the inflow of undesirable fluids. The technique utilizes at least one autonomous inflow control device which is placed along a well completion to control inflow of fluid from an exteri...