ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,577, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Oso Perforating LLC (Irving, Texas).
"Perforating gun and ballistic interrupter for same" was invented by Nathan McFarland (Euless, Texas), Varun Garg (Dallas), Jeremy Ursi (Frisco, Texas), Kerron James (Fort Worth, Texas) and Peter Galligan (Grapevine, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating gun used in oil and gas completions operations, the perforating gun including a ballistic interrupter actuable from a disarmed state or configuration, in which ballistic communication between a detonator and a detonation cord is impeded, to an armed state or configuration, in which ballistic commu...