US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for downhole communication" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,722, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for downhole communication" was invented by Steven Hough (Minchinhampton, Great Britain) and Edward Richards (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole communication system includes a gap sub located at an RSS. The gap sub is located on the outer, independently rotating member of the RSS. This allows the RSS to receive electromagnetic downlink communication signals from the surface or from an MWD. The RSS transmits electromagnetic uplink signals to a second gap sub located above the RSS or to the s...