US Patent Issued to VERACIO, GLOBAL TECH on Dec. 30 for "Devices, systems, and methods for wireless data acquisition during drilling operations" (Australian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,986, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VERACIO LTD. (Salt Lake City) and GLOBAL TECH CORPORATION PTY LTD (Forrestfield, Australia).

"Devices, systems, and methods for wireless data acquisition during drilling operations" was invented by Christopher L. Drenth (Callander, Canada), Gordon Stewart (Perth, Australia), Brett Wilkinson (Perth, Australia) and Raymond Hill (Perth, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system can comprise a drill string having a longitudinal axis and comprising at least one drill rod and a wireless sub coupled to the at least one drill rod. The wireless sub can comprise processing circuitry that...