US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 21 for "Systems and methods for measurement of formation elastic moduli with a borehole dual packer apparatus" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,110, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for measurement of formation elastic moduli with a borehole dual packer apparatus" was invented by Jean Elkhoury (Cambridge, Mass.), Richard A. Birchwood (Cambridge, Mass.) and Romain Prioul (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including deploying a formation testing tool in a borehole, actuating first and second packers of the formation testing tool in the borehole, obtaining measurements in response to actuation of the first and second packers of the formation testing tool in the borehole, and analyzi...