ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,869, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods for producing a geothermal well" was invented by Pontus Loviken (Clamart, France), Matthieu Simon (Clamart, France), Josselin Kherroubi (Clamart, France), Andrew J. Parry (Clamart, France), Ronan Meneu (Montpellier, France), Olivier Bernard (Montpellier, France), Delphine Coutrot (Montpellier, France) and Elodie Daynac (Montpellier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a geothermal well includes obtaining site information including at least a site volume; obtaining drilling parameters; determining lengths and orien...