ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,790, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for advanced fishing of downhole cable wire" was invented by Matthew Edward Billingham (Paris), Alberto Abouganem Stephens (Doha, Qatar), Barry McCallum (Doha, Qatar) and Afsal Areepetta Mannil (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to advanced fishing of downhole cables, for example, using camera assemblies to monitor the relative position of a fishing tool with respect to cable wire in substantially real time. For example, systems and methods presented herein incl...