US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for determining downhole tool status" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,073, 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 identifying, from surface parameters, a surface downlink sent from a surface of the wellbore to the downhole tool. The surface downlink indicates a downlink command for the downhole tool to implement. The system and method ...