US Patent Issued to Advanced Upstream on Aug. 12 for "Devices, systems, and methods for selectively engaging downhole tool for wellbore operations" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,357, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Advanced Upstream Ltd. (Calgary, Canada).

"Devices, systems, and methods for selectively engaging downhole tool for wellbore operations" was invented by Tom Watkins (Calgary, Canada), Jeyhun Najafov (Calgary, Canada), Ratish Suhas Kadam (Calgary, Canada) and Henryk Kozlow (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for wellbore operations is configured to self-determine its downhole location in a wellbore in real-time and to self-activate upon arrival at a preselected target location. The device determines its downhole location based on magnetic field and/or magnetic flux signals p...