US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 31 for "Sand screen with a non-woven fiber polymer filter" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,513, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Sand screen with a non-woven fiber polymer filter" was invented by Jushik Yun (Rosharon, Texas), Scott Malone (Houston), Xiaohong Ren (Rosharon, Texas) and Paarth Thapar (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sand screen for use within a wellbore. The sand screen may include a non-woven fiber polymer filter and a mechanical retainer. The non-woven fiber polymer filter may have a compressed state and an expanded state. The mechanical retainer may retain the non-woven fiber polymer filter in the compressed state. The non-woven fiber...