ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,836, issued on March 3, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for performing downhole formation testing operations" was invented by Francois-Xavier Dubost (Paris), Ashers Partouche (Sugar Land, Texas), Hua Chen (Sugar Land, Texas) and Bertrand Theuveny (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for performing downhole formation testing operations. Certain methods include deploying a downhole toolstring of a downhole formation testing system to a downhole location within a wellbore extending through a subterranean for...