ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,069, issued on June 10, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Germany).

"Perforating gun and alignment assembly" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich), Thilo Scharf (Letterkenny, Ireland) and Gernot Uwe Burmeister (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating gun and alignment assembly includes a perforating gun housing formed from a singular and monolithic piece of metal material, and an alignment ring rotatably secured to the housing. A shaped charge positioning device is positioned in a chamber of the housing."

The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2021, under Application No. 18/249,645.

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