US Patent Issued to TCO AS on March 18 for "Metal bellows for downhole use" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,175, issued on March 18, was assigned to TCO AS (Indre Arna, Norway).

"Metal bellows for downhole use" was invented by Adrian Caruana (Indre Arne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal bellows for downhole use includes: a bellows capsule with a first end and a second end; an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side arranged between the first end and the second end; where the bellows capsule comprises a first bellows convolution and second bellows convolution and optionally additional bellows convolutions; and each bellows convolution comprises: a root on the inner diameter side of the bellows capsule; a first sidewall ...