ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,683, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Autonomous operations in oil and gas fields" was invented by Morten Kristensen (Lysaker, Norway), Marie LeFranc (Lysaker, Norway), Bertrand Theuveny (Paris), Hadrien Dumont (Paris), Nikita Chugunov (Arlington, Mass.), Sebastien Roche (Paris), Wiwin Yuliana (Beijing), Zhenning Bao (Beijing), Erwan Olliero (Houston), Ram Sunder Kalyanraman (Houston), Thomas Pfeiffer (Sugar Land, Texas), Claude Signer (Paris), Simon Edmundson (Houston), Hua Yu (Beijing), Ke Jiang (Beijing), Vassilis Varveropoulos (Sugar Land, Texas), Henri-Pierre Valero (Paris), Eric Jeanson (Houston), Guillaume Borrel (Paris)...