US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 17 for "Blowout preventer locking system and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,305, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Blowout preventer locking system and method" was invented by Jean-Luc Pujol (Beziers, France) and Gerard Tarbouriech (Beziers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a blowout preventer (BOP) having a ram assembly having first and second pistons. The first piston is configured to drive a first ram into a cavity of the BOP and the second piston is configured to drive a second ram into the cavity. The system also includes a motor assembly having first and second motors. The first motor is configured to cause an extension of a fi...