US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 3 for "Sliding wireline catcher and cutter for lost downhole wire" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,218, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Sliding wireline catcher and cutter for lost downhole wire" was invented by Mohieddin Attig Ali Alghazali (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Fahmi Aulia (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fishing a wire lost downhole in a wellbore includes a wire catcher assembly and a wire cutter assembly. The wire catcher assembly includes a body that encases an end of the wire, a wire guide attached to the body which directs the end of the wire into the body, a gripping mechanism that secures the wire within the body, and a wire...