ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,861, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated refinement and correction of exploration and/or production data in a data lake" was invented by Tze W. Ma (Spring, Texas), Vincent Bergbauer (Katy, Texas) and Krishna Mudda (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are set forth for receiving data from a client device, the data associated with an operation occurring at an exploration and production system, ingesting the received data into a data lake, applying one or more transformations to the ingested data prior to consumption ...