US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "Method and apparatus to perform downhole computing for autonomous downhole measurement and navigation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,981, issued on Sept. 15.

"Method and apparatus to perform downhole computing for autonomous downhole measurement and navigation" was invented by Tianxiang Su (Cambridge, Mass.), Suraj Kiran Raman (Cambridge, Mass.), Muhannad Abdelaziz Abuhaikal (Cambridge, Mass.), Andriy Gelman (Cambridge, Mass.) and Farshid Mostowfi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for an apparatus used for wellbore intervention, evaluation and stimulation. The apparatus provides a tractor mechanism, a power supply, tools and sensors used in evaluation and stimulation activities with hydrocarbon recovery operations."

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