ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,962, issued on March 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Shock-wave generation for wireline" was invented by Mustafa Karakaya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sohrat Baki (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireline perforation assembly configured to be disposed in a wellbore includes one or more perforation gun subassemblies, each comprising one or more shaped explosive perforation charges configured to, when detonated, form a perforation in a wall of the wellbore. The assembly further includes shock-wave generation subassemblies, each comprising a housing and a length of detonation co...