ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,700, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Submersible pump with stage erosion control" was invented by Raju Ekambaram (Singapore), David Milton Eslinger (Bartlesville, Okla.), Kean Wee Cheah (Singapore), Stanislav Ivanov (Singapore), Teng Fei Wang (Singapore), Arthur Ignatius Watson (Houston) and Jose Angel Caridad Urena (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates long-term operation of a submersible pump which may be used in an electric submersible pumping system. According to an embodiment, the submersible pump comprises at least one stage, e.g. a plurality of st...