ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,974, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Equipment health monitor" was invented by Stuart Alan Kolbe (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Ian Robert Farmer (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Morven Collie (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Andrew Whitmore (Stonehouse, Great Britain) and Darwin Amaya (Stonehouse, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool health manager may receive surface contextual data of the downhole drilling system. A tool health manager may receive downhole contextual data of the downhole drilling system, the downhole contextual data including downhole operating data for...