ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,992, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Automated analysis of pressure data" was invented by Melanie Jensen (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffrey Miles (Arlington, Mass.), Julian Pop (Houston), Anirban Mondal (Sugar Land, Texas) and Kashyap Gupta (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to offer insight on reservoir compartmentalization through the automation of single- and multi-well formation pressure analysis. The method specifically accounts for the measurement uncertainty and any prior information about the reservoir to draw evidence on at least one of a fluid type, a l...