ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,081, issued on June 10, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Tagging assembly including a sacrificial stop component" was invented by Andreas Peter (Celle, Germany), Volker Peters (Wienhausen, Germany), Thorsten Regener (Wienhausen, Germany), Kjell Magne Gronaas (Sandnes, Norway), Frank Johnsen (Hundvaag, Norway), Gaute Grindhaug (Stavanger, Norway), Freddy Seterdal (Stavanger, Norway), Rick Frey (Hannover, Germany) and Kjetil Holden (Celle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a location of an inner string in an outer string includes an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis o...