US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 28 for "Wireline automation systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,765, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Wireline automation systems and methods" was invented by Jisheng Li (Sugar Land, Texas), Yang Hu (Sugar Land, Texas), Thomas Mauchien (Sugar Land, Texas), Benjamin Jean Yvon Durand (Sugar Land, Texas), Xuedong Yang (Sugar Land, Texas), Richard Woods (Houston), Tzy Yu Chow (Sugar Land, Texas) and Amanda Olivio (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireline shifting tool comprising an anchor, a linear actuator, and a shifter may be at least partially controlled by one or more measurements indicating an amount of force applied to the a...