ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,290, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Compressing data collected downhole in a wellbore" was invented by Oliver Mohnke (Celle, Germany), Yuri Vatis (Hannover, Germany), Martin Errenst (Hannover, Germany) and Holger Tietjen (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computer-implemented method for transmitting data from a downhole location to the earth's surface. The method includes sensing, with one or more sensors, sensor data downhole, the sensor data comprising a plurality of data value sets. The method further includes assigning at least one data value of each o...