US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Pressure Control on July 7 for "Disengageable valve backseat system and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,518, issued on July 7, was assigned to Baker Hughes Pressure Control LLC (Houston).

"Disengageable valve backseat system and method" was invented by Fabio Tanaka (Spring, Texas), Lloyd Cheatham (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Javier Garcia (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly includes a valve body, a bonnet coupled to the valve body, a stem within the stem bore, a bonnet cap axially aligned with the bonnet along a stem bore axis, and a valve drive train coupled to the stem. The valve assembly also includes a first eutectic ring, positioned between a bonnet cap interior surface and an upper shelf of the valve drive...