ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,732, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for determining deformation of a tool string" was invented by Hua Yu (Beijing), Li Chen (Beijing), Adriaan Gisolf (Bucharest, Romania) and Jiankun Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting loading of a tool string implemented in a wellbore includes, for a formation testing operation of the wellbore, receiving temperature data for the wellbore and receiving pressure data for a fluid flowing through the tool string. The method includes, for the formation testing operation of the wellbore, estimating ...