ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,065, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Hydraulic indexing system" was invented by David Clayton (Angleton, Texas), Jerome Prost (Gif sur Yvette, France), Brad Swenson (Friendswood, Texas), Michael Jasper (Saint Johns, Fla.), Gabriel Isaicu (Missouri City, Texas), Emrah Gokdag (Missouri City, Texas), Ron Perez (Katy, Texas) and Julia Huynh (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique provides a desired control over incremental actuation of hydraulic devices. A hydraulically actuated tool is combined with a control module. The hydraulically actuated tool has an actuator piston...