ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,294, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wet connect method which includes stabbing the innermost layer of a conformal multilayer soft shell apparatus containing conductive material" was invented by Pranay Asthana (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Euan Murdoch (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Rae Younger (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a conformal multilayer soft shell apparatus and a system to make a downhole connection between an electric power supply, a conformal multilayer soft shell apparatus, and a downhole system requiri...