US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on July 7 for "In-slips acoustic reception" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,389, issued on July 7, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"In-slips acoustic reception" was invented by John-Peter van Zelm (Calgary, Canada), Trevor Page (Airdrie, Canada) and Andrew Hawthorn (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that enable acoustic communications through a drill pipe even when the drill pipe is being held in floor slips. In one embodiment, multiple self-contained acoustic receivers are positioned at different locations on a drilling rig to receive acoustic telemetry signals from a downhole tool through various acoustic channels. The acoustic receivers ...