US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 12 for "Fluid state-based framework" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,309, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Fluid state-based framework" was invented by John Morrison Whyte (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Maria Fernanda Vargas Izquierdo (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving data acquired during one or more well construction operations; detecting one or more fluid states using a number of predefined fluid states and the data, where the predefined fluid states include operational fluid states and associated fluid sub-states; generating, using the one or more fluid states, an assessment of a fluid treatmen...