ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,080, issued on April 21, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for autonomous well intervention" was invented by Andrew Mueller (Sugar Land, Texas), Todor K. Sheiretov (Sugar Land, Texas), Luis Silva (Sugar Land, Texas), David Engel (Larose, La.), Kamalah Chang (Taubate, Brazil) and Fabio Jose Pestana (Taubate, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an autonomous robotic system and a docking system deployed by a seaborne vessel. The docking system houses the autonomous robotic system and couples to a subsea structure of a subsea system. The subsea structure is dispos...