US Patent Issued to Benteler Steel/Tube on Sept. 16 for "Tube product, hollow carrier of perforating gun and method of manufacturing the tube product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,057, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Benteler Steel/Tube GmbH (Germany).

"Tube product, hollow carrier of perforating gun and method of manufacturing the tube product" was invented by Jozef Balun (Schlangen, Germany), Waldemar Engel (Paderborn, Germany), Niko GroBe-Heilmann (Harsewinkel, Germany), Michael Kaufmann (Paderborn, Germany) and Nathalie WeiB-Borkowski (Buren-Brenken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tube product, namely a perforating gun hollow carrier, consisting of a steel alloy with martensitic matrix, characterized in that it has a yield strength Rp0, 2 of at least 900 MPa,...