ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,946, issued on June 23, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Data memory unit for electric submersible pumping system" was invented by David Tanner (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Ryan Semple (Owasso, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric submersible pumping system includes one or more sensors, a sensor module configured to receive and process data from the one or more sensors, and a data memory unit configured to store data received from the one or more sensors. The data memory unit can be used for storing data using methods that shift the frequency at which information is recorded from the sensors. ...