US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 6 for "Electrically patterned polycrystalline diamond compact for sensing applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,083, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Electrically patterned polycrystalline diamond compact for sensing applications" was invented by Alireza Zolfaghari (Rosharon, Texas) and Manuel P. Marya (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electrified polycrystalline diamond compact component. The electrified polycrystalline diamond compact component includes one or more graphene surfaces used to generate an electrical signal based on an applied pressure, an applied strain, an applied electrochemical potential, or an applied electromagnetic field, or a combina...