ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,074, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Systems and methods for determining downhole tool status" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston), Mustapha Rhazaf (Abingdon, Great Britain), Qiuhua Liu (Houston), Prateek Goel (Houston) and Jinsoo Kim (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of monitoring a downhole tool implemented in a wellbore that include receiving an initial status of the downhole tool, an initial operation mode and one or more initial operation parameters. The system and method also include identifying a surface downlink sent from a surface of the wellbore...