US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 30 for "Identifying landing of downhole equipment at a wellhead" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,051, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Identifying landing of downhole equipment at a wellhead" was invented by James Matthews (Houston), Yong Wee Lee (Singapore), Haw Keat Lim (Singapore), Navya Yenuganti (Sugar Land, Texas) and Rachna Sharma (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead landing, locking and sealing detection system may receive an acoustic signal from at least one acoustic sensor located on an outer surface of a wellhead. A wellhead landing, locking and sealing detection system may process the acoustic signal resulting in a processed acoustic signal...