US Patent Issued to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY on Feb. 17 for "System and method for reducing gas break out in MPD metering with back pressure" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,755, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY Co. (Fort Smith, Ark.).

"System and method for reducing gas break out in MPD metering with back pressure" was invented by Martyn Parker (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Benjamin Micah Spahn (Alma, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of maintaining back pressure located downstream of the flow meter maintains the pressure downstream of the flow meter in relation to the surface back pressure (SBP). At least one flow control device is located downstream of the flow meter. The flow control device (the BPV) automatically maintains the downstream pressure to less than or...