ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,699, issued on June 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Real time automated control method for wireline downhole debris collecting while milling operation" was invented by Xuedong Yang (Sugar Land, Texas), Robert Kyle Wiesenborn (Sugar Land, Texas), Maxim Klyuzhev (Sugar Land, Texas), Rishi Mishra (Sugar Land, Texas), Idalia Stevenson (Sugar Land, Texas) and Mohammad Irfan Uddin (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for milling and removing debris in a wellbore, comprising: moving a collecting while milling (CWM) tool downhole into the wellbore; and conducting a first operation...