ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,638, issued on June 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION SUGAR (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Normalized shifting visualizer" was invented by Clement Laplane (Houston), Benjamin Jean Yvon Durand (Sugar Land, Texas), Thomas Mauchien (Sugar Land, Texas), Amanda Olivio (Tomball, Texas) and Brandon Christa (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes disposing an intervention service tool within a tubular. The intervention service tool includes an anchoring system, a shifting system, and a linear actuator system. The tubular includes a shifting profile geometry disposed within the tubular at a first locatio...