US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems providing operational surveillance of valves used in industrial applications" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,153, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems providing operational surveillance of valves used in industrial applications" was invented by Jerome Prost (Clamart, France) and Raphael Gadot (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for monitoring the operation of a valve, which employ a data acquisition unit and a gateway device located at an industrial site where the valve is being used, and at least one cloud-computing system located remotely from the industrial site. At least one sensor is mounted on the valve at the industr...