US Patent Issued to Weatherford Technology Holdings on July 14 for "Apparatus and methods for deploying sensor in downhole tool" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,444, issued on July 14, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Apparatus and methods for deploying sensor in downhole tool" was invented by James H. Taylor Jr. (Houston), William Allen Schultz Jr. (Cypress, Texas), Albert C. Odell II (Kingwood, Texas) and Glenn Iversen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole assembly includes a tubular body having a bore and a downhole tool connected to the tubular body. The downhole assembly also includes a sensor assembly having a carrier and a sensor. A sensor adapter is used to couple the sensor assembly to the tubular body. The sensor adapter includes an adapt...