ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,782, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Hanging production logging tools below a cable deployed electric submersible pump" was invented by Iain Maclean (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Rubria Garza (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Robert Loov (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing fluid production into a well during pumping fluid from the well includes deploying a well pump on an electrical cable to a selected depth in a production tubing nested within a protective pipe in the well. The well pump has suspended therefrom an extension line. The exte...