ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,251, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Rig operations information system" was invented by Geoffrey Peter Short (Ackworth, Great Britain) and James Curtis Brannigan (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a data interface that receives data associated with a plurality of wells; an inference engine that receives and analyzes at least a portion of the data to generate results; and a communication engine that outputs information based at least in part on the results."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/807,959.

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