US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Devices, systems, and methods for downhole power generation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,134, issued on July 1, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods for downhole power generation" was invented by Jonathan Robert Hird (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andrew David Robinson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole energy harvesting system includes a housing subjected to periodic oscillations. An energy harvesting device is on, in, or otherwise connected to the housing and positioned to generate electricity based on the periodic oscillations. The energy harvesting device is coupled to at least one of a powered component or an energy storage ...