US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 12 for "Integrated screen for electrical flow control valve" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,613, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Integrated screen for electrical flow control valve" was invented by Arun Arumugam (Rosharon, Texas), Nabil Batita (Houston) and David Lardy (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen is integrated with or connected to an electric flow control valve via a flow-through 3-way sub, wherein the 3-way sub comprises: a first connection configured to couple to the electric flow control valve; a second connection configured to couple to the screen; a third connection configured to couple to an inner string disposed at least partially withi...