US Patent Issued to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY on June 23 for "Debris catch for managed pressure drilling" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,888, issued on June 23, was assigned to PRUITT TOOL & SUPPLY Co. (Fort Smith, Ark.).

"Debris catch for managed pressure drilling" was invented by Benjamin Micah Spahn (Alma, Ark.) and John Moreton (Mansfield, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The debris catch provides a strainer located downstream of a rotating control device (RCD) within a flow line. The strainer is located between the RCD and at least one protected component. The strainer limits the debris and other junk that flows to protected components located downstream of the strainer. A first sensor and a second sensor detect the pressure differential between a location bef...