US Patent Issued to STOCKHOLM PRECISION TOOLS on Feb. 10 for "Device and system for orienting core samples" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,210, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STOCKHOLM PRECISION TOOLS S.L. (Malaga, Spain).

"Device and system for orienting core samples" was invented by Orlando Rene Ramirez Ozuna (Malaga, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for orienting core samples relative to their position in the subsoil before extraction, attaching to a core bit during drilling features a robust tubular body with a detector to identify core sample breakage and orientation using triaxial accelerometers and gyroscopes, measuring orientation by the gravity vector or true north. An electronic control unit stores, timestamps, and transmits data wirelessly vi...