ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,098, issued on April 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Junction orienting interface for a multilateral well" was invented by Jose Francisco Hurtado (Rosharon, Texas), Mikhail V. Gotlib (Rosharon, Texas) and Kjell Revheim (Bucharest, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orienting interface for alignment of a profile feature with a window of a tubular for installation at a junction of a multilateral well. The interface includes the coupling of an orienting device that accommodates the profile with an anchoring segment of the tubular. This coupling takes place with fasteners through selectivel...