US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Oct. 6 for "Vibrational damper for elevated temperatures" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,659, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Vibrational damper for elevated temperatures" was invented by Rocco DiFoggio (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work string and method of absorbing a vibration at the work string. The work string includes an outer member, an inertial mass disposed within the outer member and a damping element between the outer member and the inertial mass. The damping element includes a liquid having a viscosity that increases with increasing temperature. The damping element absorbs the vibration being transferred from the outer member to the inertial mass."...