ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,084, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"System and method for contamination monitoring" was invented by Kai Hsu (Sugar Land, Texas), Thomas Pfeiffer (Katy, Texas), Kang Wang (Houston), Dan Schulz (Houston), Morten Kristensen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Youxiang Zuo (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving first fluid property data from a sample flowline of a focused sampling system and receiving second fluid property data from a guard flowline of the focused sampling system. The sample flowline and the guard flowline are each configured to sample format...