ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,344, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to IMDEX TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD (Balcatta, Australia).
"Deployment tool and method" was invented by Andrew Phillip Beach (Balcatta, Australia) and Matt Holliday (Balcatta, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for installation in a drill string for delivering, retrieving, activating and/or deactivating one or more downhole tools for performing one or more down-hole functions with a drill string, the tool comprising: an outer body, a control shaft with at least one fluid path from the inside to the outside of the control shaft, a wireline coupling for connection to a wireline, and a lodgeme...