US Patent Issued to Owen Oil Tools on March 24 for "Perforating gun with detonation module" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,386, issued on March 24, was assigned to Owen Oil Tools LP (Houston).

"Perforating gun with detonation module" was invented by Timothy E. Lagrange (Lacombe, Canada), Jeffrey Gartz (Lacombe, Canada) and Jeffrey D. Wood (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for selectively firing a perforating gun having a plurality of gun assemblies may include an end plate, a portion of a signal communication circuit, an initiator assembly, and an initiating element. The end plate has a cavity formed by at least a first passage intersecting a second passage. The first passage extends from a planar end face of the end plate and t...