Patents Assigned to FORUM US, INC.
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Patent number: 12281647Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to locking assembly apparatus for piston apparatus and pony rod apparatus of pump systems (such as mud or frac pump systems), and related methods. In one aspect, the locking assembly is a mechanical locking assembly used to quickly and simply lock and unlock (e.g., release) a piston apparatus to and from a pony rod apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Heinrich Bartels, Stephen Patterson, Sohaib Anwer
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Patent number: 12247460Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to float valve assemblies. The float valve assembly comprises a float sub, a first float valve having an outer housing, and a second float valve having an outer housing. The outer housings of the first and second float valves are coupled together and disposed within the float sub in a stacked configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Francis Santos, Sohaib Anwer
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Patent number: 12221851Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wellbore plugs, and specifically to pump down wiper plug assemblies used for conducting casing integrity pressure tests and completing wellbores. A plug assembly comprises one or more of a mandrel, a wiper, a plug member, a ring member, and dissolvable member. The dissolvable member, and the plug member and the ring member are configured to temporarily close fluid flow through an inner bore of the mandrel. The entire or only a portion of the outer surface of the dissolvable member comprises a protective coating.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventor: Jeffery Morrison
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Patent number: 12158045Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to counterbalance systems for catwalk systems, and related methods. A counterbalance system pulls a trough of a catwalk system while actuating the catwalk system. A catwalk system includes a chassis, a main arm pivotably coupled to the chassis, a trough pivotably coupled to the chassis and having one or more rollers, a V-door ramp pivotably coupled to the chassis, and a counterbalance system coupled to the trough at a coupling point. The counterbalance system includes a first sheave suspended from the V-door ramp, a second sheave suspended from the first sheave, and a counterbalance rope wound at least partially about the first sheave and the second sheave. A first end of the counterbalance rope is coupled to the trough at the coupling point.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Gerardo Guerra, Jesse Goerlich
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Patent number: 12123280Abstract: Embodiments presented provide for an apparatus that provides a dislodgable plug seat that is used to capture a cement wiper plug for wellbore cementing operations. The apparatus further includes a collar having a ball seat and a closing sleeve configured to be shifted from an open position to a closed position. In the open position, a fluid pathway between an interior volume and a wellbore annulus is unblocked, and in the closed position the fluid pathway is blocked. A split ring is shiftable with the closing sleeve between a retained configuration when the closing sleeve is in the open position and an expanded configuration when the closing sleeve is in the closed position. The split ring holds the dislodgable plug seat in place within the body in the retained configuration and releases the dislodgable plug seat in the expanded configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Andrew Webber, Jeffery Morrison, Jeffry Ehlinger
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Patent number: 12117113Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to connection blocks and pump manifold systems, and related methods, for pumping operations (such as frac operations). In one implementation, a connection block for disposition along a pump manifold of a pump system includes a first end hub having a first tube and a first outer shoulder extending outwardly relative to the first tube. The connection block includes a second end hub opposing the first end hub. The second end hub has a second tube and a second outer shoulder extending outwardly relative to the second tube. The connection block includes one or more faces between the first end hub and the second end hub.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Harry Alexander Hughes, II
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Patent number: 12078047Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to fluid injection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof that include flexible hoses for wellhead sites. In one implementation, a fluid injection system for wellhead sites includes a pump, a pump manifold, and a flexible hose coupled between the pump and the pump manifold. The flexible hose includes a first end coupled to the pump and a second end coupled to the pump manifold. The first end of the flexible hose includes a first end fitting coupled to the pump, and the first end fitting is oriented at an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The second end of the flexible hose includes a second end fitting coupled to the pump manifold, and the second end fitting is oriented vertically and perpendicularly to the horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2024Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Peter Middleton, Harry Hughes
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Patent number: 12078026Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wellbore plugs, and specifically to pump down wiper plug assemblies used for conducting casing integrity pressure tests and completing wellbores. A plug assembly comprises one or more of a mandrel, a wiper, a dissolvable member, a rupture disk, and a movable sleeve. The dissolvable member and the rupture disk are configured to temporarily close fluid flow through an inner bore of the mandrel. The entire or only a portion of the outer surface of the dissolvable member comprises a protective coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Jeffery Morrison, Andrew Webber
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Patent number: 12064787Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of conducting a coiled tubing operation. In one implementation, a method includes forming a tubing string, the tubing string having an outer surface. The method also includes applying a coating to an application portion of the outer surface of the tubing string. The application portion includes a portion of the tubing string that will be disposed in a horizontal section of a wellbore, and the coating has a surface energy lower than a surface energy of the outer surface of the tubing string to thereby reduce friction between the tubing string and a casing disposed in the horizontal section of the wellbore as the tubing string is lowered into the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Jessica Lorae Olson Perez, Neal A. Lux, Alex Paul Sheehan, Irma Irais Galvan, Garry F. Mcclelland, Raymond Rowland, Stephen Michael Hejducek
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Patent number: 12055012Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a casing string comprising a buoyant mandrel and one or more dissolvable plugs, and methods of conducting wellbore operations using the casing string. The casing string may have an upper mandrel comprising a rupture disk. A slotted mandrel may be coupled to a lower end of the upper mandrel and comprise a plug disposed in a port of the slotted mandrel. A casing shoe may be coupled to a lower end of the slotted mandrel and comprise a check valve assembly. A gas filled chamber may be formed between the rupture disk and the check valve assembly. The plug may be configured to dissolve after a predetermined amount of time when in contact with a wellbore fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Samer Elkhalil, Jeffery Morrison
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Patent number: 12049797Abstract: Linear wellhead connection systems and related methods of pumping fluid into a plurality of wellheads. The linear wellhead connection system uses linear movement of an inlet conduit to transition between multiple discharge conduits that are connected to different wellheads to pump pressurized fluid from a manifold to the different wellheads. The inlet conduit is moveable in a linear direction along a track system relative to the discharge conduits.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Alex Paul Sheehan, Roger Lane Suter
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Patent number: 12024977Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to stage collars and related methods of operation thereof for stage cementing operations. In one implementation, a stage collar for stage cementing operations includes a barrel, and an activation sleeve disposed at least partially in the barrel. The activation sleeve includes first fluid openings. The stage collar includes an activation ring that includes an activation seat. The stage collar includes a first set of shear fasteners coupling the activation ring to the activation sleeve, and a second set of shear fasteners coupling the activation sleeve to the barrel. The stage collar includes a setting piston, and a closing sleeve disposed at least partially in the barrel. The closing sleeve includes second fluid openings. The stage collar includes a third set of shear fasteners coupling the closing sleeve to the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Andrew Webber, Jeffery Morrison
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Patent number: 11994245Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to flexible wellhead connection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof. The aspects include a rotatable joint. In one example, the rotatable joint includes a swivel. In one example, the flexible wellhead connection systems, apparatus, and methods are used to connect wellheads to one or more of fluid sources and/or instrumentation skids.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventor: Steven Post
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Patent number: 11946667Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to noise suppression vertical curtain apparatus for heat exchanger units. In one implementation, a heat exchanger unit includes a frame having a plurality of side regions and at least one cooler associated with at least one of the plurality of side regions. The heat exchanger unit also includes a vertical axis, an internal volume, a floor, and a fan disposed above the floor to move air through the internal volume. The heat exchanger unit also includes a first set of panels disposed between the floor and the fan, and a vertical curtain disposed between the first set of panels and the fan.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: John Gaska, Hamid Reza Zareie Rajani, Jonathan Penner, Kevin Visscher
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Patent number: 11905781Abstract: Linear wellhead connection systems and related methods of pumping fluid into a plurality of wellheads. The linear wellhead connection system uses linear movement of an inlet conduit to transition between multiple discharge conduits that are connected to different wellheads to pump pressurized fluid from a manifold to the different wellheads. The inlet conduit is moveable in a linear direction along a track system relative to the discharge conduits.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Alex Paul Sheehan, Roger Lane Suter
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Patent number: 11879318Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to fluid injection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof that include flexible hoses for wellhead sites. In one implementation, a fluid injection system for wellhead sites includes a pump, a pump manifold, and a flexible hose coupled between the pump and the pump manifold. The flexible hose includes a first end coupled to the pump and a second end coupled to the pump manifold. The first end of the flexible hose includes a first end fitting coupled to the pump, and the first end fitting is oriented at an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The second end of the flexible hose includes a second end fitting coupled to the pump manifold, and the second end fitting is oriented vertically and perpendicularly to the horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Peter Middleton, Harry Hughes
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Patent number: 11833561Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coiled tubing string that meets specified material properties in a single continuous operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Forum US, Inc.Inventor: Raymond Rowland
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Patent number: 11815201Abstract: Modular end apparatus, such as modular end fitting apparatus, and methods for flexible hoses, and associated components thereof. In one implementation, a flexible hose apparatus includes a flexible hose and a hose body coupled to the flexible hose, the hose body including a threaded outer surface. The flexible hose apparatus includes a cap including an inner shoulder protruding inwardly relative to a first inner surface of the cap. The flexible hose apparatus also includes a removable end fitting disposed in engagement with the cap. The removable end fitting includes an end body that is monolithic. The end body includes a first end, a second end opposite of the first end, and a first outer shoulder adjacent the first end and disposed between the hose body and the inner shoulder of the cap.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Steven Post, Peter Middleton
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Patent number: 11811206Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to cable protector assemblies, and related methods and systems. In one or more implementations, a cable protector assembly includes an adjustable latch. In one embodiment, which can be combined with other embodiments, a cable protector assembly includes a protective frame at least partially defining a channel. The channel is configured to at least partially receive a cable. The protective frame includes a frame flange having a section of a frame sheet formed into a first arcuate shape to define a frame opening. The cable protector assembly includes a collar segment pivotably coupled to the protective frame. The collar segment is pivotable between a disengaged position, an engaged position, and a biased position. The collar segment includes a collar flange having a section of a collar sheet formed into a second arcuate shape to define a collar opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventor: Donald Sherriffs
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Patent number: D1024091Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FORUM US, INC.Inventors: Stefan Hempel, Leonard Maximilian Schroeter, Rumen Mittelstaedt