Patent 8074737 was granted and assigned to Baker Hughes on December, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A perforating system and method for wellbore perforating. The system comprises a perforating string having a perforating gun with shaped charges, a communication module for receiving detonation signals, and a controller associated with each perforating gun. The module receives surface signals for gun detonation and wirelessly transmits the signals to selected guns via the associated controllers.