ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,833, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Sampling and testing process fluids from a lithium recovery system and associating process data and test data of the process fluid samples" was invented by Miguel Angel Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) and Rod William Shampine (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid sampling system having a nozzle, a fluid path configured to transfer a process fluid sample of a process fluid from a process fluid source of a lithium recovery system to the nozzle, a fluid control device along the fluid path, an identification tag reader, and a process...