US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Continuous choke for downhole valve" (Brazilian, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,535, issued on July 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Continuous choke for downhole valve" was invented by Ivan Candiani (Taubate, Brazil), Bernardo Assis Criscolo De Melo Machado (Taubate, Brazil), Icaro Accordi (Taubate, Brazil), Cassius Elston (Taubate, Brazil), Eduardo Scussiato (Taubate, Brazil) and Ali Bin Alsheikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous choke for a flow control valve is provided. The continuous choke can be included in a fully electric, full bore flow control valve. The continuous choke comprises a housing comprising at least one opening, a sleev...