US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Automated analysis of drilling fluid" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,010, issued on April 22, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated analysis of drilling fluid" was invented by Colin Stewart (Houston), Truls Fossdal (Sandsli, Norway), Ragnar Melz (Sandnes, Norway), Jerry Thomas Connaughton (Richmond, Texas), Zakhar Chizhov (Katy, Texas), Neil McPherson (Houston) and Rahul Sheladia (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a fluid conduit, a fluid chamber in communication with the fluid conduit, a rheology sensor in communication with the fluid chamber, and an electric temperature controller in communication with the fluid chamber. The fluid chamber...