US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Shock damping ring design for downhole electronic systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,140, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Shock damping ring design for downhole electronic systems" was invented by Xing Fan (Rosharon, Texas), Marius Smarandache (Rosharon, Texas), David Merlau (Rosharon, Texas) and Brian John Bethscheider (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents a shock damping ring for use in a downhole tool that includes a base ring structure a plurality of fingers extending from the base ring structure axially parallel to a central axis of the base ring structure. Each finger of the plurality of fingers is configured to phy...