US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 1 for "System and methodology to combine sand control and zonal isolation for artificial lift systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,549, issued on April 1, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and methodology to combine sand control and zonal isolation for artificial lift systems" was invented by Ashutosh Dikshit (Houston) and Abhinandan Tripathi (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular joint installable on a tubular string disposable within a wellbore. The tubular joint may include includes a perforated section, a filter section, and a packer. The perforated section may be proximate a first end and may include a first plurality of orifices to allow fluid communication between a bore of the tubular joint and a...