ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,940, issued on May 27, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Hybrid ESP failure prediction using fuzzy logic for data improvement and augmentation" was invented by Ailneni Rakshitha Rao (Bangalore, India), Shashwat Verma (Bangalore, India) and Geetha Nair (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described using a trained ML model to monitor, detect failure within, and schedule a remediation procedure (RP) for an operating ESP within a well. ESP status data including a time series comprising ESP input variables representing ESP state are collected from a sensor. Using fuzzy logic, the ESP status da...