ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,894, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"System and methods for well head installation" was invented by Yaou Wang (Sugar Land, Texas), Haw Keat Lim (Singapore) and Yong Wee Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a casing hanger; a wellhead housing, including a landing shoulder configured to contact the casing hanger during installation of the casing hanger in a wellhead; a transducer disposed on an exterior of the wellhead housing, wherein the transducer is configured to emit an input pulse toward the landing shoulder; and an ultrasonic transmitter coupled to the transd...