US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 7 for "Downhole wireline recovery tool and method of recovering downhole wirelines" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,367, issued on July 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole wireline recovery tool and method of recovering downhole wirelines" was invented by Justin Tate Abel (Austin, Texas) and Emad Abbad M. Alabbad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireline recovery tool for retrieving a wireline from a wellbore includes an outer sheath and a rotatable spear positioned within the outer sheath. The rotatable spear includes a plurality of angled portions and a plurality of vertical portions such that the rotatable spear has an asymmetrical profile. The outer sheath includes a first and second...