US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 31 for "System, apparatus, and method for continuous digital image calibration" (Saudi Arabia, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,999, issued on March 31, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System, apparatus, and method for continuous digital image calibration" was invented by Francois Wantz (Clamart, France) and Mahdi Ammar (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a digital camera deployed in an image acquisition chamber and configured to acquire a digital image of a cuttings sample. A calibration sample holder including a sample area configured to receive the drill cuttings sample and a calibration area having a color calibration region and a spatial resolution calibration region is deployed in t...