US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 18 for "Borehole acquisition operation interval via Stoneley wave" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,985, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas) and SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Borehole acquisition operation interval via Stoneley wave" was invented by Mohamed Saif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sachit Saumya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wael Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ramy Ahmed Mohamed (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Aida Abdullah Abri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shouxiang Mark Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving Stoneley wave data acquired by a sonic tool disposed in a borehole in a formation; performing an inversion...