ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,052, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Compensator assembly for downhole tool articulation systems and methods" was invented by Tejas Deshpande (Houston), Bo Chen (Rosharon, Texas) and Brian Walther (Rosharon, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve system of a well string may include a compensator assembly to receive a pipe fluid from piping and include a piston chamber and a piston disposed within the piston chamber that fluidly isolates a first portion from a second portion of the piston chamber. The first portion is fluidly coupled to the piping and the second portion is f...