ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,979, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Event detection from pump data" was invented by Crispin Chatar (Katy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an event includes measuring a pressure of a fluid with a pressure sensor. The method also includes generating a pressure spectrogram based at least in part on the pressure. The method also includes comparing the pressure spectrogram to a plurality of historical pressure spectrograms. The historical pressure spectrograms have previously been determined to be related to one or more events. The method also includes d...