US Patent Issued to Defiant Engineering on Nov. 4 for "Interlocking perforation gun and methods of use" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,517, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Defiant Engineering LLC (Odessa, Texas).

"Interlocking perforation gun and methods of use" was invented by Cullen Craig Keyes (Hysham, Mont.), Ian Graham Janke (Parkland County, Canada), Lawrence Gene Griffin (Morrison, Colo.) and Benjamin David Jennings (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reloadable, reusable, downhole interlocking gun and perforation system having two interlocking bodies that each include multiple receivers and barrels. The interlocking bodies are configured to interlock together with each other so that a receiver of one of the interlocking bodies is aligned with a corres...