US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Self-consistent flow regime identification for downhole monitoring" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,781, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Self-consistent flow regime identification for downhole monitoring" was invented by William J. Bailey (Somerville, Mass.), Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan (Boxborough, Mass.) and Kashif Rashid (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure include receiving measured data corresponding to a wellbore and locating the measured data in a flow map corresponding to the wellbore. The method also includes converting the measured data to determine friction loss and comparing the located measured data and the de...