US Patent Issued to Icefield Tools on July 28 for "Downhole instrument with angular rate sensor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,779, issued on July 28, was assigned to Icefield Tools Corp. (Whitehorse, Canada).

"Downhole instrument with angular rate sensor" was invented by Erik Blake (Whitehorse, Canada), Emmanuel Potvin (Whitehorse, Canada) and Mark Pollard (Whitehorse, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole instrument includes an instrument housing, a sensor yoke rotatably mounted within the instrument housing, and an angular rate sensor carried by the sensor yoke. A first rotational stop is mounted to the instrument housing that defines a first rotational position of the sensor yoke. A second rotational stop mounted to the instrument housing defi...