US Patent Issued to Underground Magnetics on Aug. 25 for "Wireless telemetry system for horizontal directional drilling" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,352, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Underground Magnetics Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Wireless telemetry system for horizontal directional drilling" was invented by Jian Jin (Johnston, Iowa), Yuriy Khapochkin (Johnston, Iowa), Yuyang Jin (Johnston, Iowa) and Ge Chang Ping (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless data telemetry system for use in a drilling system can include a drill head wireless transmitter and at least one data link transceiver. The drill head wireless transmitter can be in a drill head of the drilling system, the drill head wireless transmitter configured to generate and transmit one or more data si...