ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,312, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Floway Innovations Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Autonomous flow control systems having bypass functionality" was invented by Xinqi Rong (Dallas) and Liang Zhao (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole fluid flow control system positionable in a wellbore. The flow control system includes a completion string with a plurality of flow control tubulars and at least one bypass tubular positioned therein. Each of the flow control tubulars includes at least one autonomous inflow control device configured to allow production of a formation fluid when the formation fluid is a desired fluid and to...