ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,401, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Generating downhole motor torque and RPM of a downhole motor with a drilling fluid having a compressible portion" was invented by Yaou Wang (Sugar Land, Texas) and Yong Chang (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole motor control system may identify a downhole compressible density of a drilling fluid using a downhole temperature and a downhole pressure of the drilling fluid, the drilling fluid including an incompressible portion and a compressible portion, the drilling fluid flowing downhole with a downhole compressible flo...