US Patent Issued to Helmerich & Payne Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for downhole power generation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,616, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Helmerich & Payne Technologies LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Systems and methods for downhole power generation" was invented by Teddy Chen (Austin, Texas), Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain), Andrew Evan Mcgregor (Inverness, Great Britain) and Marc Ernest Willerth (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a plurality of thermoelectric devices may be arranged to cool one or more components of a downhole drilling component during drilling operations. A current can be applied to one or more thermoelectric devices to generate a cooling effect. The thermo...