US Patent Issued to Triaxis Oil Tools on April 14 for "Tubing anchor including slips actuated by segmented cone sections" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,233, issued on April 14, was assigned to Triaxis Oil Tools Inc. (Calmar, Canada).

"Tubing anchor including slips actuated by segmented cone sections" was invented by Larry Bunney (Edmonton, Canada) and Kevin Kelm (Leduc County, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubing anchor apparatus has a plurality of slips supported on an inner housing, and a first fixed cone arrangement and a second movable cone arrangement, each of circumferentially spaced cone sections, supported at opposing ends of the slips. The cone sections have working faces sloped radially and longitudinally inwardly towards the slips such that actuating the second...