ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,136, issued on April 22, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Downhole lithium detection systems and methods" was invented by Christian Stoller (Neuenhof, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include one or more downhole tools, where a first downhole tool includes a pulsed neutron generator to emit neutrons into a borehole of a geological formation and one or more gamma-ray detectors to obtain a measurement of gamma-ray emissions, of a borehole environment, induced by the emitted neutrons. The system may also include data processing circuitry to determine a Sigma value associated with ...