US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 17 for "Metal seal for dynamic downhole environments" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,520, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Metal seal for dynamic downhole environments" was invented by David Gomez Ramirez (Rosharon, Texas), Matthew Hoffmeyer (Sugar Land, Texas), Chijie Lin (Rosharon, Texas), Gabriel Alin Isaicu (Missouri City, Texas), Brad Swenson (Rosharon, Texas), Karl Wong (Rosharon, Texas), Hoi Ling Cheng Tu (Houston) and Travis Hohenberger (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal may include a seal body, an inner arm protruding from the seal body and configured to mate with an inner surface, the inner arm including: an inner seal protrusion prox...