ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,844, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Built-up evaluation shut-in tool operation controlled from the surface" was invented by Vincent Chatelet (Clamart, France), Fabio Cecconi (Clamart, France), Juan Miguel La Rotta Marin (Sugar Land, Texas) and Luis Silva (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for a built-up, evaluation, shut-in tool that enables real time and pseudo real time control from the surface. In embodiments, an up-link telemetry indicates well data below a configuration valve to the surface. The wellbore data may be used to indicat...