US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 6 for "Motion effect detection" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,342, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Motion effect detection" was invented by Shin Utsuzawa (Sugar Land, Texas) and Nicholas Heaton (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for motion detection of a logging tool. A system includes a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging tool configured to perform at least one Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) scan utilizing a plurality of distinct echo times (tE) in conjunction with a single excitation pulse and a single wait time as a multiple echo spacing sequence to acquire NMR logging measurements and a ...