US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Pressure Control on March 24 for "Arranged profiled plates and load relief plates for oilfield equipment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,366, issued on March 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Pressure Control LLC (Houston).

"Arranged profiled plates and load relief plates for oilfield equipment" was invented by Paul Cody (Houston), Wei He (Houston), Brian Munk (Houston) and Mahesha Udipi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a system for a slip hanger or packoff to be used with oilfield equipment is disclosed. The system includes an arrangement of one or more load relief plates to be above or below one or more profiled plates, the one or more profiled plates having a profile that induces a change in shape in the one or more load relief pl...