ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,707, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE (Aulnoye-aymeries, France).

"Device for acquiring and sending data between oil or gas well strings" was invented by Eric Donzier (Meudon, France) and Emmanuel Tavernier (Meudon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular component for a well pipe including a transmitting antenna, a first reading antenna axially spaced apart from the transmitting antenna by a distance D, excitation electronics connected to the transmitting antenna and arranged to emit an electromagnetic field E having a first electromagnetic characteristic, reading electronics connected to the ...