ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,204, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Approaches to drilling fluid volume management" was invented by Julien Converset (Sugar Land, Texas), Aditya Garga (Saint Nom la Breteche, France), Can Evren Yarman (Clamart, France), Dieter Knoll (Montpellier, France), Damien Lecha (Montpellier, France) and Antoine Vaslin (Montpellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving real-time data relating to drilling fluid for drilling operations that utilize a drilling fluid system that includes tanks and pumps, where the drilling operations include operations that pump...