US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Anisotropic resistivity and dielectric constant measurements of a subterranean formation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,612, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Anisotropic resistivity and dielectric constant measurements of a subterranean formation" was invented by Gong Li Wang (Sugar Land, Texas) and Dean Homan (Damon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating vertical and horizontal resistivity values and vertical and horizontal dielectric constant values of a multi-layer, anisotropic subterranean formation includes acquiring electromagnetic propagation measurements of the subterranean formation and inverting the measurements using a one-dimensional formation model to compute the...