US Patent Issued to Expro North Sea on Sept. 23 for "Power and telemetry systems for a downhole instrument" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,848, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Expro North Sea Ltd. (Dyce, Great Britain).

"Power and telemetry systems for a downhole instrument" was invented by John Henry McKay (Stonehaven, Great Britain) and David Sirda Shanks (Newmachar, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole instrument system for permitting continued operation a downhole instrument after one or more failure modes is provided. The downhole instrument system includes an electrical power supply in electrical communication with the downhole instrument via an electrical power connection comprising one or more lengths of electrical cable and one or more e...