ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,502, issued on May 20, was assigned to TRANSOCEAN INNOVATION LABS LTD. (Grany Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Methods for assessing the reliability of hydraulically-actuated devices and related systems" was invented by Andrew Leach (Houston), Matthew Boike (Houston) and Luis Rafael Pereira (Katy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure includes methods for testing hydraulically-actuated devices and related systems. Some hydraulically-actuated devices have a housing defining an interior volume and a piston disposed within the interior volume and dividing the interior volume into a first chamber and a second chamber, where the p...