US Patent Issued to GEODYNAMICS on May 27 for "Shaped charge load tube with integrated detonation cord retention mechanism" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,924, issued on May 27, was assigned to GEODYNAMICS INC. (Millsap, Texas).

"Shaped charge load tube with integrated detonation cord retention mechanism" was invented by Wenbo Yang (Kennedale, Texas) and James A. Rollins (Lipan, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading tube is configured to receive one or more shaped charges to form a perforating gun. The loading tube includes a tubular body extending along a longitudinal axis; a cord passage formed into the tubular body; a retention cutoff formed into the tubular body and configured to receive a detonator cord; and a holding element extending into the retention cutoff and being ...