ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,847, issued on March 31, was assigned to VAULT PRESSURE CONTROL LLC (Houston).

"Multi-bowl wellhead assembly and method of completing a well" was invented by Khang V. Nguyen (Houston), Saurabh Kajaria (Houston), Knox F. Wright (Houston) and Sheila A. Adkinson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A A wellbore system includes a hub and an annular locking member. The hub can be adapted to couple to a wellhead. The annular locking member can couple to an external diameter of a blowout preventer assembly. The annular locking member can include a plurality of locking elements configured to couple the annular locking member to the hub. Fu...