US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 15 for "Systems for thermally insulating sensitive downhole equipment" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,977, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems for thermally insulating sensitive downhole equipment" was invented by Rae Andrew Younger (Westhill, Great Britain) and Jamie Cochran (Westhill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole electronics enclosure system may include a tool body, a carrier body, a phase change media, and a support mechanism. The tool body defines an interior cavity. The carrier body may be removably provided within the interior cavity, and the carrier body may define an interior compartment for receiving electronics. The phase change media ma...