ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,024, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"High temperature superconducting cable based power delivery system in pulsed power drilling" was invented by Nagaraja K. Pai (Houston), Robert Charles De Long (Tulsa, Okla.), Hassan Mansir (Frimley, Great Britain) and Boguslaw Wiecek (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises one or more high temperature superconducting cables configured to supply power from surface to a bottom hole assembly positioned in a wellbore while drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises one or more cryogenic liquid supply c...