US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 10 for "Methodology and system for utilizing rig mud pump assembly" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,061, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methodology and system for utilizing rig mud pump assembly" was invented by Bartley Patton (Rosharon, Texas), William Troy Huey (Denver) and Mark Vaughan (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique facilitates a drilling operation, e.g. a land-based drilling operation, by enabling a substantial reduction in the number of equipment components. According to an embodiment, a mud pump assembly is provided with at least one mud pump located on a rig positioned at a wellsite. The mud pumps may be run to perform a mud pumping operat...