US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 9 for "Automated determination of an NMR pulse sequence" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,534, issued on June 9, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated determination of an NMR pulse sequence" was invented by Can Evren Yarman (Paris) and Albina Mutina (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically determining an NMR pulse sequence for use in downhole NMR measurements, such as NMR logging while drilling measurements, includes receiving a set of expected NMR measurements and evaluating the received set of expected NMR measurements using a bilevel optimization to determine a pulse sequence for the downhole NMR measurement."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2024, under A...