US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 8 for "Sidewall coring tool systems and methods" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,161, issued on July 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Sidewall coring tool systems and methods" was invented by Amol Bhome (Sugar Land, Texas), Robert Monroe Lowe Jr. (Katy, Texas), Charles Haddad (Kristiansand, Norway), Daniel De La Garza (Alvin, Texas), Patrick Fisseler (Sugar Land, Texas) and Kelly Collins (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein include sidewall coring tool assemblies used to return core plugs of rock from a sidewall of a wellbore as part of a data collection exercise for exploration and production of hydrocarbons. A coring bit and a cori...