H01B 7/046
Attached to objects sunk in bore holes
Official title: {attached to objects sunk in bore holes, e.g. well drilling means, well pumps}
H01B7/046 (Attached to objects sunk in bore holes) appears on 234 US grants and 251 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01B- Granted patents
- 234
- Published applications
- 251
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 428
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2006 | 5 | 11 |
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| 2020 | 16 | 11 |
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| 2022 | 14 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 5 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Cables for cable deployed electric submersible pumps6 Oct 2026US 12,755,862 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Conductive outer jacket for wireline cable11 Aug 2026US 12,706,230 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Superconducting cables for electrical submersible pump motors21 Apr 2026US 12,609,217 B2Halliburton Energy Services.Inc.
- Wireline and slickline cables for downhole operations3 Feb 2026US 12,542,224 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Method of making a fluid conduit30 Dec 2025US 12,508,638 B2Subsea 7 Limited
- Collapse resistant coupled electro-optics slickline cable1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299238 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Submarine cable18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171286 A1Ls Cable & System Ltd.
- Wireline cable for underbalance coiled tubing drilling7 May 2026US 2026/0126604 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Lead free cable for power delivery to downhole equipment9 Apr 2026US 2026/0100294 A1Halliburton Energy Services.Inc.
- Acid resistant wireline cable4 Dec 2025US 2025/0372283 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Low flux leakage cables and cable terminations for A.C. electrical heating of oil deposits325US 5,713,415 AUentech Corporation · 1998
- Continous power/signal conductor and cover for downhole use226US 6,103,031 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 2000
- Downhole cable223US 8,369,667 B2Halliburton Energy Services.Inc. · 2013
- Flexible armored communication cable and method of manufacture111US 6,255,592 B1Gamut Technology, Inc. · 2001
- Combination fiber-optic/electrical conductor well logging cable99US 5,495,547 AWestern Atlas International, Inc. · 1996