ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,316, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Corrosion inhibitor compositions for reducing corrosion, and related methods of operating a wellbore" was invented by Ahmed Rabie (Sugar Land, Texas), Rasika Prabhu (Sugar Land, Texas), Christopher Daeffler (Sugar Land, Texas), Juan David Estrada Benavides (Katy, Texas) and Robert Brown (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing corrosion within a wellbore includes placing a wireline including a perforating gun in a wellbore, the wellbore extending through an earth formation and including a casing extending through the earth ...