US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Dec. 2 for "Valve condition monitoring system for a positive displacement pump" (Texas, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,839, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Valve condition monitoring system for a positive displacement pump" was invented by David Gerard Gerber Jr. (Sugar Land, Texas), Muharrem Ali Tunc (Sugar Land, Texas), Kevin L. Case (Sugar Land, Texas), Caroline Shipley (Lake Charles, La.), Han Yu (Sugar Land, Texas), Jagan Thaduri (Sugar Land, Texas) and Seoyeon Hong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for monitoring valve and pump efficiencies for positive displacement pumps. The techniques include utilizing a data acquisition system to attain intake and discharge pressure data...