US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 31 for "Systems and methods for surface supervision of a downhole tool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,536, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for surface supervision of a downhole tool" was invented by Maja Ignova (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Katharine Mantle (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Ekaterina Brovko (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Michael Oswald (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may obtain azimuth and inclination measurements from a downhole tool in a downhole environment. A system may obtain a downhole ROP and downhole DLS from a downhole control unit. A system may determine a corrected DLS demand based at least partially on a ratio...