ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,678, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for evaluation of a target fluid" was invented by Sharath Chandra Mahavadi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Dominic Vincent Perroni (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may obtain one or more samples of an analysis fluid obtained at a predetermined location and containing a target fluid. A system may place the one or more samples into a capillary electrophoresis device. A system may determine a concentration of at least a target ion in the target fluid of the one or more samples using the capillary electrophores...