US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 17 for "Pilot amplified autonomous flow control configuration, method, and system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,318, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Pilot amplified autonomous flow control configuration, method, and system" was invented by Oscar Becerra Moreno (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pilot amplified autonomous flow control configuration, including a flow control device having an inlet and an outlet, a pilot having an inlet connected to a source of fluid to which the device inlet is connected, the pilot comprising a first chamber having a first rotatable block, the first block having a specific gravity greater than oil and less than water, a port with a plurality of ports...