US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Methods and systems for estimating properties of organic matter in geological rock formations" (Saudi Arabia, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,508, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems for estimating properties of organic matter in geological rock formations" was invented by Bastian Christoph Eddie Sauerer (Sandsli, Norway), Paul Ryan Craddock (Cambridge, Texas) and Wael Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing organic matter in a geological rock formation includes performing a Raman spectroscopy measurement on a rock sample to acquire a Raman spectrum of the rock sample. The method includes analyzing the Raman spectrum of the rock sample to determine da...