ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,997, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Geothermal production monitoring systems and related methods" was invented by Charles Toussaint (Clamart, France), You Cheng Jee (Singapore), Guillaume Jolivet (Singapore) and Cheng-Gang Xie (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Geothermal production monitoring systems and related methods are disclosed herein. An example system includes a production well, an injection well, a downhole pump or a downhole compressor to control a production of a multiphase fluid including steam from the production well, a first fluid conduit to transport the ...