US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 5 for "Dynamic multi-flowline control system for downhole tools" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,325, issued on May 5, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Dynamic multi-flowline control system for downhole tools" was invented by Nicholas Betancourt (Sugar Land, Texas) and Keith R. Nelson (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for a multi-flowline control system and methods for dynamically switching fluid flow in downhole tools. The method may include operating the downhole tool in a first valve configuration, the downhole tool configured to sample fluid from a geological stratum, sending an actuation signal to the first valve configuration, receiving the actu...