US Patent Issued to Fishbones AS on May 12 for "Apparatus for forming lateral bores in subsurface rock formations, wellbore string and methods" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,596, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fishbones AS (Sandnes, Norway).

"Apparatus for forming lateral bores in subsurface rock formations, wellbore string and methods" was invented by Maximilian Leinenbach (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various apparatus, a wellbore string incorporating the apparatus, and a computer-implemented method are described, whereby in various examples at least one flexible elongate member is guided from a wellbore string toward a wall of the wellbore for forming at least one lateral bore in a subsurface rock formation for stimulating the formation. The apparatus in such examples has at leas...