US Patent Issued to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS on March 31 for "Fluid end with transition surface geometry" (Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,578, issued on March 31, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Fluid end with transition surface geometry" was invented by Konner Casey Kay (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Vadim Kachkovskiy (Spring Mills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid end of a reciprocating pump includes multiple bores formed therein, and adjacent bores intersect each other. The intersection of two adjacent bores forms an intersection corner, which is where a concentration of high stress occurs during operation of the pump. A novel geometrical shape or geometry of the intersection corner reduces the concentration of stress on the intersectio...