US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 8 for "Closing unit system for a blowout preventer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,597, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Closing unit system for a blowout preventer" was invented by Matthew Olson (Cypress, Texas) and Stephen McGuire (Hockley, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closing unit system for a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a fluid reservoir that stores a fluid at atmospheric pressure, at least one pump system fluidly coupled to the fluid reservoir, and at least one power source electrically coupled to the at least one pump system. At least one valve of the closing unit system is fluidly coupled to the at least one pump system and to an actu...