ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,621, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Veracio Ltd. (Salt Lake City) and Globaltech Corporation Pty Ltd (Forrestfield, Australia).

"Systems and methods for measuring depth within a borehole" was invented by Adam Tomaszewski (Ontario, Canada) and Gordon Stewart (Claremont, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining depth within a borehole. The system includes a downhole device having at least one inertial sensor, at least one processor, and a memory in communication with the at least one processor. The memory can include instructions thereon that, when executed, cause the processor to: receive data from the at le...