US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 11 for "Torsional damping and flexible components in downhole systems and methods" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,444, issued on March 11, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Torsional damping and flexible components in downhole systems and methods" was invented by Sarah Slavens (Houston), Scott Woolston (Spanish Fork, Utah), Denis Li (Sugar Land, Texas), Ebenezer Sola Oluwadare (Sugar Land, Texas) and Kien Hoe Tang (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible downhole component includes an upper connection for connecting the flexible downhole component to a first downhole tool and a lower connection for connecting the flexible downhole component to a second downhole tool. The flexible downhole comp...