US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 22 for "System and method for streaming high frequency data to surface while drilling" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,160, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for streaming high frequency data to surface while drilling" was invented by Krzysztof Karol Machocki (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include a dart deployment sub coupled to a drill string including a data receiver, a transmission device, and a data transmission cable, a downhole data collection sub coupled downhole from the dart deployment sub including an instrumentation package capable of acquiring parameter data regarding a location in the wellbore, and a dart disposed inside t...