US Patent Issued to Cameron International on April 21 for "Systems and methods with seal elements shaped to efficiently cement casing and seal a hanger in a wellhead housing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,084, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"Systems and methods with seal elements shaped to efficiently cement casing and seal a hanger in a wellhead housing" was invented by Kyle Sommerfeld (Houston) and Andrew Sanders (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead includes a wellhead housing, a passage formed in or along the wellhead housing, a hanger configured to support a casing within the wellhead housing, and a seal assembly coupled to or integrally formed with the hanger. The seal assembly includes one or more seal elements with a wavy shape along a circumferential axis."

The patent...