US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 17 for "Automated methods to determine properties of laminated reservoir formations" (American, Dutch, Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,033, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated methods to determine properties of laminated reservoir formations" was invented by Nicholas Norman Bennett (Hamden, Conn.), Ting Lei (Arlington, Mass.), Erik Wielemaker (The Hague, Netherlands), Lin Liang (Belmont, Mass.), Romain Prioul (Concord, Mass.), John Adam Donald (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and Olga Podgornova (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provide for methods that successfully evaluates multiple compressional and shear arrival events received by a sonic logging tool to evaluate the presence of struc...