ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,343, issued on April 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Cooling for bellows pump" was invented by Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.), Justin Lee Hurst (Duncan, Okla.), Andrew Silas Clyburn (Duncan, Okla.) and Kurt R. Harpold (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary systems may have a bellows pump and a make-up system, with the make-up system being configured to both keep the piston and bellows of the pump in sync and to cool fluid from at least one additional component of the system. In some embodiments, the make-up system may be configured as the sole cooling mechanism for the overall syst...