US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 30 for "Mud pump valve leak detection and forecasting" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,118, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Mud pump valve leak detection and forecasting" was invented by Alejandro Camacho Cardenas (Singapore), Vishwanathan Parmeshwar (Houston) and Manat Singh (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a pump in a drilling system, of which the method includes determining a plurality of baseline behaviors for one or more valves of the pump, determining a plurality of in-use behaviors for the one or more valves of the pump. Each of the plurality of in-use behaviors are determined based on one or more measurements from ...