US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 16 for "Apparatus, system and/or method for modular filter screens" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,148, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Apparatus, system and/or method for modular filter screens" was invented by Claire Rosaleen Galloway McLean (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and/or a system filters particles using a screen with modular segments installed into a frame. The frame has a perimeter structure and an orthogonal array of support members. The segments have a segment perimeter frame, an orthogonal array of ribs and a mesh stretched across the segment. When the mesh of the segments is damaged, the damaged segment is removed from the fr...