ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,546, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Canned motor for electric submersible pump" was invented by Raju Ekambaram (Singapore), You Cheng Jee (Singapore), Stanislav Konstantinovich Ivanov (Singapore) and Maxim Y. Radov (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A canned motor for a submersible pump system and a method of manufacturing the canned motor are provided. The canned motor includes: a canned stator comprising a can disposed within a central bore of a lamination stack, wherein an inner diameter of the can comprises at least one keyway; and a rotor bearing comprising at leas...