US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "Methodology and system for electronic control and acquisition of downhole valve" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,285, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methodology and system for electronic control and acquisition of downhole valve" was invented by Carlos Urdaneta (Houston), Mark Hofacker (Houston) and Jordi Juan Segura Dominguez (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates control over a downhole well operation. The technique utilizes an electronic control system for controlling actuation of a valve downhole. The valve, in turn, is operated to enable selective control over fluid flows governing the actuation of a downhole tool and/or other downhole operations. In some embo...