US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Sidewall coring tools having active circulation features" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,787, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Sidewall coring tools having active circulation features" was invented by Jules El-Khoury (Houston), Anish Kumar (Houston), Christopher Albert Babin (Waveland, Miss.) and Khaled Hadj-Sassi (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein include sidewall coring tools with active circulation caused by bi-directional downhole pump modules included in the sidewall coring tools. The active flow of mud through the sidewall coring tools may be adjustable in substantially real time during coring operations performe...