ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,512, issued on April 7, was assigned to National Oilwell Varco LP (Houston).
"Shaker fluid level automatic control" was invented by Pradeep S. Pandurangan (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to shaker adjustments based on sensor measurements for sensors positioned at different locations about the shaker. This disclosure explains techniques to adjust a shale shaker as would be used to separate particulates (cuttings and other solids) from drilling fluid (commonly referred to as "mud") during a drilling operation. Empirical models have been formulated to provide for programming a controller to calculate run-...