US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 17 for "Wireless downhole acoustic telemetry systems and processes for installing and using same" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,874, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Wireless downhole acoustic telemetry systems and processes for installing and using same" was invented by Yann Dufour (Houston), Fernando Garcia-Osuna (Sugar Land, Texas), Arnaud Croux (Paris), Arnaud Jarrot (Peynier, France) and Kaiyang Liew (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Telemetry systems that include a wireless acoustic telemetry system and processes for installing and using same. In some embodiments, a wireless acoustic telemetry system can include a plurality of transducer assemblies spatially distributed on or about a pipe str...