ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,028, issued on June 3, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Electro-optical wireline cables" was invented by Joseph Varkey (Richmond, Texas), Maria Grisanti (Missouri City, Texas), David Kim (Katy, Texas), Ian Mace (Sugar Land, Texas) and Tam Tran (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cables that include a conductor and an optical fiber. In some embodiments, the cable can include an optical fiber loosely disposed within an enclosure. A conductor layer can be disposed about the enclosure. An insulation layer can be disposed about the at least one conductor layer. An inner layer of armor streng...