US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Systems and methods for estimating the position of solid fills and optimizing their removal during coiled tubing cleanout operations" (American, Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,889, issued on June 23, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for estimating the position of solid fills and optimizing their removal during coiled tubing cleanout operations" was invented by Philippe Michel Jacques Tardy (Sugar Land, Texas), Pavel Spesivtsev (Houston), Pierre Ramondenc (Petaling Jaya, France), Tianxiang Su (Cambridge, Mass.), Dongkeun Lee (Sugar Land, Texas), Jordi Juan Segura Dominguez (Beijing) and Laurence Fossati (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein facilitate coiled tubing operations, and generally relate to gene...