ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,707, issued on May 13, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Latch assembly" was invented by Christopher Shen (Richmond, Texas), Christopher Cassidy (Pearland, Texas), Julia Huynh (Houston), Valeria Erives (Houston), Harshith Dmello (Rosharon, Texas) and Ronnie Bruce (Rosharon, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock latch assembly for a multi-stage completion and method of operating the lock latch assembly are provided. The latch assembly functions as a snap latch prior to activation and as a shear latch after activation."
The patent was filed on April 7, 2022, under Application No. 18/553,902.
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