ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,016, issued on April 29, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Digital avatar platform" was invented by Luis Felipe Lopez (Stafford, Texas), Mehul Yesminkumar (Sugar Land, Texas), Clare Schoene (Houston) and Obinna Ilochonwu (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide a platform for a digital avatar that represents a particular physical device or a process using one or more processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to implement the digital avatar. The digital avatar includes a system model for the...