ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,241, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Determining reservoir fluid properties from downhole fluid analysis data using machine learning" was invented by Shahnawaz Molla (Watertown, Mass.) and Farshid Mostowfi (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for determining in situ the value of a formation fluid parameter using a downhole fluid analysis (DFA) tool. The methods utilize advanced statistical learning tools to build a predictive model to estimate a fluid property given a set of input parameters. In one embodiment the fluid saturation pressure parameter is determi...