US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Systems and methods for determining downlinks for transmitting to a downhole tool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,403, issued on March 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for determining downlinks for transmitting to a downhole tool" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston), Qiuhua Liu (Houston), Prateek Goel (Houston) and Jan Dolejsi (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method of implementing an operation of a downhole tool within a wellbore includes identifying a tool command for a downhole tool to change a current state of the downhole tool to a target state. The method further includes determining, from a set of candidate downlink commands, a set of o...