US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 22 for "Collaborative generation of cuttings logs via artificial intelligence" (French, Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,761, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Collaborative generation of cuttings logs via artificial intelligence" was invented by Sophie Androvandi (Paris), Karim Bondabou (Montpellier, France), Francois Wantz (Clamart, France), Matthias Francois (Clamart, France), Maryellen Loan (Quincy, Mass.), Tetsushi Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.) and Simone Di Santo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a depth log of cuttings obtained during a subterranean drilling operation includes acquiring images of the cuttings and labeling the images with a lagged depth...