US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES PRESSURE CONTROL on March 31 for "Automatic setting support for a slip hanger" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,502, issued on March 31, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES PRESSURE CONTROL LLC (Houston).

"Automatic setting support for a slip hanger" was invented by Ryan Joseph Parsley (Houston), Brian N. Munk (Houston) and Xichang Zhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a slip hanger or a packoff to be used with oilfield equipment is disclosed as having slip segments to be supported by a slip bowl and to be associated with pins that have a self-retractive attribute. The self-retractive attribute is to allow engagement of the slip segments with a housing of the oilfield equipment based in part on a first direction o...