ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,043, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bedrock Energy Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Ultra-compact coiled tubing (UCCT) operations for geothermal field construction" was invented by Silviu Livescu (Austin, Texas), Kyle Clark (Georgetown, Texas), Rio Whyte (Austin, Texas) and Javad Gatabi (San Marcos, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include systems and methods for constructing geothermal fields. In one aspect, a system for constructing a geothermal field comprises a coiled tubing. The coiled tubing is configured for drilling one or more boreholes of the geothermal field. The coiled tubing is configu...