US Patent Issued to Innovex International on July 14 for "Space-out mechanism for a tubing hanger and a tree" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,409, issued on July 14, was assigned to Innovex International Inc. (Humble, Texas).

"Space-out mechanism for a tubing hanger and a tree" was invented by Blake T. DeBerry (Houston), Morris B. Wade (Houston), Flavio Santos (Houston), Gregory Norwood (Boerne, Texas), Robert Buxton (Cypress, Texas), Justin Rye (Houston) and Todd L. Scaggs (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for landing a tubing hanger in a wellhead and then orienting a tree (or spool, or flowline connection body) relative to the tubing hanger while landing the tree on the wellhead are provided. This alignment is accomplished without the use of eit...