US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security on July 14 for "Sand monitoring and control system" (Japanese, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,431, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas) and Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (Tokyo).

"Sand monitoring and control system" was invented by Weijia Du (Cambridge, Great Britain), Takayuki Kanno (Kanagawa, Japan), Hadrien Dollfus (Kanagawa, Japan), Myriam Amour (Paris) and Shungo Abe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving real-time downhole time series sensor data during production of fluid from a well in fluid communication with a formation reservoir; transforming the real-time downhole time series sensor data to values for a set of predefi...