US Patent Issued to Silixa on May 20 for "Wireline optical fiber sensing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,365, issued on May 20, was assigned to Silixa Ltd. (Elstree, Great Britain).

"Wireline optical fiber sensing" was invented by Craig Milne (Elstree, Great Britain), Pete Richter (Elstree, Great Britain), Glynn Williams (Elstree, Great Britain) and Craig Woerpel (Elstree, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The high sensitivity provided by an enhanced DAS system comprising a DAS interrogator and a high reflectivity fiber allows for the deployment of such a high reflectivity fiber as part of a wireline intervention cable which can be temporarily lowered into a well, thus avoiding the need to permanently cement such a high refle...