US Patent Issued to WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS on May 19 for "Deployment of umbilical with tubular string" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,074, issued on May 19, was assigned to WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC (Houston).

"Deployment of umbilical with tubular string" was invented by Bruno Gastardelli (Macae, Brazil), Leonidas Ferrarini Jr. (Curitiba, Brazil) and Matheus Spinelli (Macae, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a telescoping arm having a guiding means and a pivot at opposite ends, the telescoping arm being rotatable about the pivot relative to a spider, and the pivot being secured to the spider. A method can include extending a telescoping arm upward relative to a rig floor, pivoting an upper end of the telescoping arm toward a tu...