ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,749, issued on May 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"High reliability, low cost electronics in oil for subsea applications" was invented by Harmel Defretin (Sugar Land, Texas), Lionel Beneteau (Clamart, France), Romain Juteau (Clamart, France) and Khaled Elshawarby (Stonehouse, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for high reliability and low cost electronics used in hydrocarbon recovery operations. In embodiments, the low cost electronics are used in subsea applications."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/489,033.

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