US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 5 for "Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating downhole motor dysfunction" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,319, issued on May 5, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating downhole motor dysfunction" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for detecting and mitigating stall of a downhole motor driven by flow of drilling fluid through the downhole motor, which employ a BHA that includes at least one first downhole sensor and at least one second downhole sensor operably disposed above the downhole motor. The methods and systems generate time-series first data representing measuremen...