ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,000, issued on July 14, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Stability check for thermal compositional simulation" was invented by Mohammad Reza Heidari (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining a phase state of a thermal compositional fluid sample. An exemplary method includes: providing a first set of parameters from an oilfield operation for a thermal compositional fluid sample; constructing a mass balance function for testing whether a phase of the thermal compositional fluid sample exists; inputting a sequence of time-steps to a numeric...