ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,741, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Wellsite equipment controller" was invented by Miguel Hernandez De La Bastida (Sugar Land, Texas), Antonio Massoni Abinader (Houston), Agustin Gambaretto (Houston) and Garud Sridhar (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment controller can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; and processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to instruct the equipment controller to: instantiate an edge application and an edge framework, where the edge framework includes a framework engine; receive sensor data; process the sen...