ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,440, issued on July 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Monitoring and managing a geothermal energy system" was invented by Matthieu Simon (Clamart, France), Sarah Asfour (Clamart, France), Prasanna Amur Varadarajan (Clamart, France) and Sylvain Chambon (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geothermal management system may receive time-series data for operation of the geothermal energy system. A geothermal management system may calibrate a physical model using the time-series data. A geothermal management system may apply the physical model to a pre-determined comparison parameter to gene...