US Patent Issued to Cameron International on Feb. 24 for "Wellhead gripping assembly installation technique and setting tool" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,043, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"Wellhead gripping assembly installation technique and setting tool" was invented by Dennis P. Nguyen (Houston), Stuart Robinson (Ploiesti, Romania) and Brandon B. Shirley (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead clamp for elastically deforming a wellhead housing to grip a wellhead hanger is provided. In one embodiment, a wellhead clamp (50) includes a first energizing ring (56), a second energizing ring (54), compression segments (52) positioned between the two energizing rings, and segment retainers (80) fastened to the compression segments and...