US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 10 for "Methods and apparatus for removing sections of a wellbore wall" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,055, issued on June 10, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and apparatus for removing sections of a wellbore wall" was invented by Todor Sheiretov (Houston), Matthew Dresel (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Nathan Landsiedel (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool may include an anchor coupled to a first portion of the downhole tool and configured to engage with a feature of a wellbore to affix the first portion to the feature. The downhole tool may also include a linear actuator coupled to the first portion and to a second portion of the downhole tool, where the linear ...