ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,184, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Choke system to control fluid pressure" was invented by Yawan Couturier (Katy, Texas) and Steven Dornak (Damon, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A choke system for oilfield operations including an actuator; a choke including: a housing defining an interior flow path; a choke plunger coupled to and movable by the actuator; and a choking member coupled to and movable by the choke plunger within the interior flow path to adjust a pressure of a fluid in the interior flow path; a sensor external to the choke, the sensor configured to measure an...