ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,457, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for smart production operations" was invented by Fabian Florez (Gatwick, Great Britain), Annalyn Azancot (Crawley, Great Britain), Angelica Maria Vargas Gomez (Quito, Ecuador), Wei Zhou (London), Adriana Paola Rueda Sanabria (Bucaramanga, Colombia), Miguel Angel Hernandez de la Bastida (Sugar Land, Texas), Krishna Reddy Arikatla (Pune, India) and Akshay Hemant Dhavale (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a plurality of datasets from devices in a resource extraction site. The metho...