US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 24 for "Autonomous inflow control systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,058, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Autonomous inflow control systems and methods" was invented by Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas), Bin Zhu (Houston), Guijun Deng (The Woodlands, Texas), Ronnie Russell (Cypress, Texas) and Daniel C. Ewing (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous inflow control system includes an inlet conduit connecting production fluid to an input of a first flow modifier including one of a laminar flow device and a turbulent flow device. An intermediate conduit is connected to a first fluid output of the first flow modifier, and connects the first flo...