ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,107, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA Inc. (Houston).

"Sensor assembly for pulser communication at the surface" was invented by Maciej Panek (West Chester, Pa.), Christopher Conrad (Glen Mills, Pa.), Sergei Knizhnik (Exton, Pa.), Neal Beaulac (Willis, Texas) and Lance Tomlinson (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a logging tool that comprises a pulser, and a sensor assembly removably attached the pulser while the logging tool is outside of a wellbore, where the logging tool operates the pulser and causes change of a detectable object in the pulser, wherein the sensor ass...