ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,285, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC (Houston).

"System and method for automated configuration of handling equipment and downhole components" was invented by Leonardo Gutierrez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods disclosed herein store sizing parameters for sized members used with downhole components and stores dimensions of the downhole components to be handled at the wellsite. The sizing parameter for a respective sized member defines how the respective sized member is sized for use with the downhole components. Machine-readable indicia is encoded with the sizing paramet...