ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,718, issued on June 24, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).
"Orienting perforation gun assembly" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating gun assembly that orients one or more shaped charges within a well includes a housing and an orienting internal assembly configured to be disposed within a longitudinal bore of the housing. The orienting internal assembly may include at least one shaped charge holder or charge tube, a rotation support system, a detonator holder and/or a detonator. The rotation support system may be configured so that the detonator holde...