ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,716, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Operations management network system and method" was invented by Ivan Alaniz (McAllen, Texas), Jan Dolejsi (Gatwick, Great Britain), Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong (Richmond, Texas), Dhananjay Raju (Anupuram, India) and Vladimir Lifschitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for operating wellsites utilized supplies from supply sites. For each wellsite, wellsite inputs for wellsite status, wellsite goals, and rate of consumption of supplies to attain the wellsite goals can be provided. For each supply site, supply site inputs for i...