ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,116, issued on April 21, was assigned to Completion Tracer AS (Harstad, Norway).
"Apparatus, a production string comprising the apparatus, and a method for estimating a production flow rate at a certain position of a well" was invented by Ole Magnar Dronen (Harstad, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for estimating a production flow rate at a certain position of a well, the apparatus has a compartment being in fluid communication with a fluid within a pipe for forming part of a production string via a first passage and a second passage. A portion of wellbore fluid within the pipe is urged through the com...