ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,716, issued on June 24, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).
"Perforating gun assembly with performance optimized shaped charge load" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich), Liam McNelis (Bonn, Germany) and Thilo Scharf (Letterkenny, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating gun assembly is configured for use in unconventional wells, for example in rock formations with low permeability. The perforating gun assembly includes a perforating gun housing and a shaped charge positioned in the perforating gun housing. The shaped charge and the perforating gun housing are configured to improve ...