US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 3 for "Electrified sealing and anti-extrusion elements for system health monitoring" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,880, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Electrified sealing and anti-extrusion elements for system health monitoring" was invented by Alireza Zolfaghari (Sugar Land, Texas) and Manuel Marya (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a fluid sealing component having a body comprising a carbon-rich material comprising a non-conductive carbon region. The carbon-rich material includes one or more treated carbon regions. The one or more treated carbon regions include an electrically conductive material. A sheet electrical resistance of the one or more treated ca...