US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 1 for "Distributed fiber-optic telemetry for data transmission and real-time location of downhole autonomous sensing devices" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,153, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Distributed fiber-optic telemetry for data transmission and real-time location of downhole autonomous sensing devices" was invented by Marwan Charara (Moscow), Anton Egorov (Moscow), Anton Gryzlov (Moscow), Huseyin Seren (Houston) and Max Deffenbaugh (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for using a Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) system to receive signals transmitted from remote autonomous sensors and to locate the autonomous sensors are disclosed. The method includes installing a DAS system in a borehole consisting of a...