ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,306, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SPM Oil & Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas).
"Mechanically resilient and wear resistant steel compositions and high-pressure pumps and pump components comprised thereof" was invented by Jacob Bayyouk (Richardson, Texas), Alastair Scott Pearson (Glasgow, Great Britain), Frank Hippenstiel (Siegen, Germany) and Michael Muller (Freudenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a resistant steel composition comprising a nickel content from about 3% MB to about 4% MB; a manganese content from about 0.5% MB to about 1.5% MB; a chromium content from about 12% MB to about ...