US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 7 for "Method and apparatus to perform a wireline cable inspection" (Norwegian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,108, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method and apparatus to perform a wireline cable inspection" was invented by Pablo Paiva (Katy, Texas), Pratyush Snehi (Pune, India) and Gabriel Arrigo Morosini (Bergen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method and apparatus to quickly identify defects in a cable used in hydrocarbon recovery wireline operations. A series of high-speed cameras take pictures along a length of the wireline cable, while artificial intelligence data processing algorithms process the camera data."

The patent was filed on ...