ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,692, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Subsurface detection system and method" was invented by German Garcia (Sugar Land, Texas), Nicholas Fundytus (Edmonton, Canada) and Hadrien Dumont (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logging system for a subsurface operation includes: a probe positioned within a wellbore extending through a target formation, the probe generating pressure pulses that propagate within a target formation proximate to the wellbore; and a wireline extending along at least a portion of the wellbore. The wireline detects the pressure pulses and generates an electri...