ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,222, issued on June 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Wellbore fluid optical spectra extraction" was invented by Julian J. Pop (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a formation fluid includes flowing formation fluid through a flowline in a downhole fluid sampling and evaluation measurement tool deployed in a wellbore and making optical absorption measurements on the flowing formation fluid to generate a plurality of optical density spectra. A spectrum from the plurality of generated spectra is selected using predetermined selection criteria that are based on op...