US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on Feb. 3 for "System and method for connecting load bearing ESP power cable" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,535, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"System and method for connecting load bearing ESP power cable" was invented by Kenny O'Grady (Owasso, Okla.), Jason Hoines (Houston) and Austin Cookson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pumping system is configured to be deployed in a well on a continuous length of armored cable. The armored cable includes an outer layer of structural wire, an inner layer of structural wire, and a power cable inside the inner layer of structural wire. The cable adapter is connected between the pumping system and the armored cable to transfer the weight of t...