ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,230, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Conductive outer jacket for wireline cable" was invented by Joseph Varkey (Richmond, Texas), Serko Sarian (Houston), Qingdi Huang (Sugar Land, Texas) and Tam Tran (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable containing a conductive outer layer and methods for manufacturing the conductive outer layer and the cable are provided. A cable may include a cable core and a plurality of armor wire strength members that surround the cable core. The cable may also include a conductive outer layer disposed about the plurality of armor wire st...