US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Systems and methods for performing lithological classification of cuttings based on calibrated photographs of rock particles" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,369, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for performing lithological classification of cuttings based on calibrated photographs of rock particles" was invented by Tetsushi Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.) and Simone Di Santo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are configured to receive one or more photographs depicting a plurality of cuttings, to identify one or more individual cuttings of the plurality of cuttings depicted in the one or more photographs, to extract morphological, color, texture, grain size, and grain distribution da...