ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,441, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Electrical submersible pumping systems" was invented by Raju Ekambaram (Singapore), Ruslan Alexandrovich Bobkov (Moscow), Maksim Radov (Singapore), Alejandro Camacho Cardenas (Singapore), David Milton Eslinger (Bartlesville, Okla.), Pradeep Mahadevan (Singapore), Teng Fei Wang (Singapore), Kean Wee Cheah (Singapore), Jaiprakash Natarajan (Singapore), Sethuraj Arumugam (Singapore) and Benoit Deville (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods facilitate pumping of various fluids such as well fluids. An electric submersible pumpi...