ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,213, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Pressure release system for well intervention" was invented by Laurent Caekebeke (Sugar Land, Texas), Kody Carrillo (Sugar Land, Texas) and Christopher Albert Babin (Waveland, Miss.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A well intervention system includes a housing. A first annular packer and a second annular packer are positioned in the housing and are configured to seal against a conduit. A lubricant injection port extends through the housing to a cavity defined between the first annular packer and the second annular packer. A pressure release po...