ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,597, issued on June 17, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Composite cable rope socket" was invented by Francois Chevillard (Abbeville, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for coupling a rope socket with an armored cable. The armored cable includes a conductor core having one or more cables for transmitting electrical and/or optical signals and at least one layer of armor wires wound around the conductor core. The rope socket includes a housing having an uphole end through which the armored cable extends into the housing and a downhole end through which the conductor core exten...