ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,624, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Security system and method for pressure control equipment" was invented by Anh Dang (Sugar Land, Texas) and Matthew Olson (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system includes a surface system comprising a control panel. The drilling system further includes a pressure control equipment configured to be operatively coupled to the control panel, wherein the control panel comprises at least one intrusion prevention system (IPS) enabled device configured to provide for one or more IPS functions."
The patent was filed on Aug. 1...