US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and method for testing a drill cuttings dispersion" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,447, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for testing a drill cuttings dispersion" was invented by Mahdi Davoodi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Evgeny Barmatov (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a multiphase fluid includes adding the multiphase fluid to an annular volume of a test apparatus, the test apparatus including an inner cylinder deployed in an outer cylinder thereby defining the annular volume. The inner and outer cylinders are configured to rotate independently with respect to one another. The method furthe...