US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for analyzing tortuosity in underground wellbores" (British, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,386, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for analyzing tortuosity in underground wellbores" was invented by Geoffrey Charles Downton (Minchinhampton, Great Britain) and Ross Lowdon (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantifying tortuosity of a wellbore includes receiving survey data for the wellbore indicating an azimuth and an inclination for the wellbore at one or more measurement depths of the wellbore. The method further includes receiving wellbore diameter data for the wellbore indicating the diameter of the wellbore at one or more...