US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Downhole connector orientation for wetmate connectors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,523, issued on April 22, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Downhole connector orientation for wetmate connectors" was invented by Christopher Cassidy (Pearland, Texas), Julia Huynh (Houston), Valeria Erives (Houston), Yann Dufour (Houston) and Nabil Batita (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines th...