US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 3 for "Thermally induced graphene sensing circuitry on intelligent valves, actuators, and pressure sealing applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,268, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Thermally induced graphene sensing circuitry on intelligent valves, actuators, and pressure sealing applications" was invented by Manuel Marya (Sugar Land, Texas), Alireza Zolfaghari (Rosharon, Texas) and Srinand Karuppoor (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermally induced graphene sensing circuitry and methods for producing circuits from such thermally induced circuits are disclosed along with applications to hydrocarbon exploration and production, and related subterranean activities. The thermally induced graphene circuitry ad...