ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,350, issued on April 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Linear actuator buckling force control" was invented by Hock Soon Tiew (Singapore), Simon Whye Kwong Wai (Singapore), Kar Ki Andrew Loh (Singapore) and How Jiun Irvin Yuen (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a stroker actuator, that includes measuring a piston extension length, calculating a piston buckling threshold based on the piston extension length, measuring a piston force, making a determination that the piston force exceeds the piston buckling threshold, and based on the determination, shortening the piston exte...