Patents and Trademarks Strategy

What we protect, where we protect it and the terms on which we will share it.

Raptor Data Limited maintains a growing portfolio of patents, trademarks and proprietary technologies that underpin our advances in signal processing, downhole measurement, non‑conventional communications and data analytics. We invest heavily in research, design and engineering and our intellectual property strategy ensures these innovations are rigorously protected under both United States and European patent systems. This foundation allows us to safeguard the integrity of our work while demonstrating the depth and maturity of our technical capabilities.

At the same time, Raptor is firmly committed to enabling industry progress. We actively welcome partners, operators, tool manufacturers and research organisations to engage with us through licensing agreements, design access, data‑sharing frameworks and collaborative development of new intellectual property. Our philosophy is simple: we protect what we create and we share it under licence to maximise its impact across the sector. Raptor is open for business, ready to support, supply and collaborate with those who want to build on our technology.

Overview

Our strategy in four parts

A protection fortress

Layered coverage around the extraction and use of communication signals in wellbores, defended rigorously.

Anchored in real applications

Completions, drilling, plug and abandonment and integrity monitoring – the operations our customers run daily.

Filed where the work happens

Core territories chosen for where the technology is built and where our customers operate – not everywhere.

Open to licensing

We support widespread deployment of our IP and know-how and will discuss terms with competitors as readily as partners.

Protection

Where our filings concentrate

Our core business is extracting and using signals in extreme, highly attenuative and noisy environments. The portfolio is layered around that single problem rather than spread thinly across the sector.

01

Signal generation and transduction

Sources, actuation and how energy is coupled into tubulars, fluids and formations.

02

The channel itself

Characterising attenuation, reverberation and operational noise so they can be worked with, not merely around.

03

Encoding and modulation

Schemes that carry data reliably through a hostile and highly variable channel.

04

Detection and recovery

Pulling low-amplitude signal out of high-noise environments and reconstructing the data intact.

05

Diagnostics and data products

Turning recovered signal into measurements, diagnostics and decisions at surface.

List of patents & trademarks

  • Downhole communication and processing
  • Method and apparatus for signal equalisation
  • Signal equalisation
  • Narrow band channel calibration
  • Blind calibration
  • Calibration during communications
  • Down conversion in frequency domain
  • Acoustic receiver
  • Method for signal diversity
  • Accumulator
  • Reconfigurable
  • Encoding or decoding communication data
  • Method and apparatus
  • Signal diversity and noise subtraction

  • Noise subtraction
  • Pathfinder® trademark
  • Raptor logo trademark

Licensing

Competitors can be partners

We support the widespread deployment and use of Raptor Data Limited intellectual property and know-how and we welcome discussions on reasonable commercial terms.

What is available

The patents

Robust high-reliability downhole real-time data communication networks.

The know-how

The practical engineering that makes the patents work in a live well.

The collaboration

Joint development where a partner brings the application and we bring the link.

Structures we will consider

Field-of-use licences

Limited to a defined application or operation.

Territory licences

Where a partner is established and we are not.

Cross-licensing

Where two portfolios are genuinely complementary.

Supply and development agreements

Where the technology is better delivered together.

Every discussion starts the same way: tell us what you are trying to build.

Get in touch

Start a conversation

We would rather licence than litigate and rather collaborate than watch the same problem solved twice.

If our portfolio touches what you are building, we would prefer to hear from you early.

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