ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,598, issued on June 17.
"Wireline standoff" was invented by Guy Wheater (Scarborough, Great Britain) and Stuart Huyton (Moray, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireline standoff that may ameliorate the effects of wireline cable differential sticking, wireline cable key seating, and high cable drags by reducing or eliminating contact of the wireline cable with the borehole wall during the logging operation. An embodiment includes a wireline standoff. The wireline standoff may comprise a pair of opposing assemblies. The opposing assemblies may each comprise a half shell, a cable insert configured to be disposed in the hal...