US Patent Issued to Oxy USA on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for determining optimal installation of downhole equipment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,443, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oxy USA Inc. (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for determining optimal installation of downhole equipment" was invented by Jonathan Lightfoot (Spring, Texas), Carlos Yicon (Richmond, Texas) and Austin Haggard (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mapping a cased wellbore, the method comprising providing a cased wellbore; and routing a sensor assembly through said cased wellbore to measure forces applied to said sensor assembly."

The patent was filed on April 21, 2025, under Application No. 19/184,513.

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