US Patent Issued to Texas Institute of Science on Sept. 16 for "Solid particle handling assembly and method for use of same" (Slovene, Slovenian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,230, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Texas Institute of Science Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Solid particle handling assembly and method for use of same" was invented by Simon Oman (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Marko Nagode (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Ales Gosar (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Jernej Klemenc (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Domen Seruga (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Laslo Olah (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid particle handling system for downhole pumps operating at low flow rates is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an outer tubing, such as a production tubing, and an additional inner tubing positioned there...