US Patent Issued to Weatherford Technology Holdings on Dec. 30 for "System and method for electrical control of downhole well tools" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,961, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"System and method for electrical control of downhole well tools" was invented by Don A. Hopmann (Alvin, Texas) and Sebastiaan J. Wolters (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with a subterranean well can include a system controller with a computer, a power supply and at least one current sensor, multiple downhole well tools, each of the downhole well tools including a motor and a member displaceable by the motor; and an umbilical connected between the system controller and the downhole well tools, at least one conductor ...