US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 21 for "Systems and methods for defining and transmitting subsurface commands" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,108, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for defining and transmitting subsurface commands" was invented by Qiuhua Liu (Houston), Samba Ba (Houston), Martin Jones (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Jinsoo Kim (Houston), Yaguang Gu (Houston) and Kostadin Buzov (Stonehouse, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a selection of a command of a plurality of commands, where the command is part of the plurality of commands and is associated with controlling one or more operations of a downhole tool, and where the plurality of commands is or...