ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,943, issued on June 3, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Augmented geological service characterization" was invented by Shashi Menon (Houston), Aria Abubakar (Sugar Land, Texas), Vikas Jain (Sugar Land, Texas), David Furse Allen (Katy, Texas), John Rasmus (Richmond, Texas), John Paul Horkowitz (Sugar Land, Texas), Valerian Guillot (Montpellier, France), Florent D'Halluin (Grabels, France), Ridvan Akkurt (Denver) and Sylvain Wlodarczyk (Saint Clement de Riviere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for augmented geological service characterization are described. An embodiment of a ...