US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 14 for "Perforating jet shaping systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,572, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Perforating jet shaping systems and methods" was invented by David Austin II (Rosharon, Texas) and John Fuller (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a shaped charge. The shaped charge includes an explosive component and a liner member coupled to the explosive component. The explosive component and the liner member emit a perforating jet based on ignition of the explosive component. The liner member has a planar symmetric portion that is planar symmetric along an axial length of the planar symmetric...