US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 31 for "Droppable object with locating system and pressure pulse telemetry actuator for use in a wellbore" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,533, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Droppable object with locating system and pressure pulse telemetry actuator for use in a wellbore" was invented by Dean M. Homan (Damon, Texas), Laurent Yves Claude Coquilleau (Houston), Jose Raul Contreras Escalante (Richmond, Texas), Artem Kabannik (Park Row, Texas) and Eugene Janssen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining the location of a droppable object in a wellbore. The droppable object includes an integrated locating system that detects completion components as the object moves through a casing s...