ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,646, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Intelligent data acquisition for wireline logging" was invented by Yi-Qiao Song (Newton Center, Mass.), Yiqiao Tang (Belmont, Mass.), Mehdi Hizem (Houston), Lukasz Zielinski (Arlington, Mass.), Michel Claverie (Cambridge, Mass.) and Zhanguo Shi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for optimizing well-logging using an optimized wait time determined by analysis nuclear magnetic resonance data to achieve faster and better quality borehole evaluation. The method comprises performing a nuclear magnetic resonanc...