US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Cable suspending and recovery device and method for use with tools deployed in subsurface wells" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,039, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cable suspending and recovery device and method for use with tools deployed in subsurface wells" was invented by Iain Maclean (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Ivor Maciver (Belhelvie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deploying a tool in a well on an electrical cable comprises attaching a cable suspension and recovery device to the cable at a position chosen such that the device is disposed below a wellhead at an upper end of the well when the tool is disposed at a selected depth in the well. The device has a diameter larg...