US Patent Issued on March 17 for "High performance shoulder ring for pipe and other tubular goods in the oil and gas industry" (Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,040, issued on March 17.

"High performance shoulder ring for pipe and other tubular goods in the oil and gas industry" was invented by Jayaram Subramanian (Spring, Texas), Sidney C. Ramos (Austin, Texas), Catalin Teodoriu (Norman, Okla.), Barry J. Matherne (Denver), Lee J. Matherne (The Woodlands, Texas) and Kyle Mowbray (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupled pipe connection system may include a coupling with internal threads adapted for joining two pipe sections by threaded engagement of external pipe threads with the internal coupling threads. A torque ring may be disposed within the coupling and between the first pipe ...