US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on May 27 for "Split downhole transformer for high power applications" (Saudi Arabia, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,870, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Split downhole transformer for high power applications" was invented by Rafael Adolfo Lastra Melo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Jamie Cochran (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Jinjiang Xiao (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes production tubing installed in the well and a female component connected to the production tubing comprising a female component body located in a housing, primary coils wound through the female component body, and a borehole delineated by an inner circumferential surface of the female compon...