US Patent Issued to FORUM US on Aug. 11 for "Safety device for fluid ends" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,426, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FORUM US INC. (Houston).

"Safety device for fluid ends" was invented by Stephen Patterson (Westhill, Great Britain), Sohaib Anwer (Houston), Francis Santos (San Antonio), Blake E. Smith (College Station, Texas) and Paul Nguyen (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety device coupled to a fluid end such that the safety device is in fluid communication with at least one of a suction chamber and a discharge chamber of the fluid end. The safety device has an outer housing and a visual indicator. The visual indicator is moveable between a first position where the visual indicator is re...