ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,507, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TRC SERVICES INC. (The Woodlands, Texas).
"Sucker rod and tubular identification and tracking" was invented by Stephen Ewing (Midland, Texas), Michael Eric Johnson (The Woodlands, Texas) and Rodrigo Ariel Ruiz (The Woodlands, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identification and tracking of sucker rods, tubulars, and other threaded wellbore components uses a coded indicium or a distinctive marking adjacent threaded areas, such as on the pin ends of the endpieces for the sucker rods or on the counterbore of a tubular coupling. The coded indicium can be applied to a surface of an undercut area ...