US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Automated fingerboard for a drilling rig" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,884, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated fingerboard for a drilling rig" was invented by Rune Skibsrud (Bygland, Norway), Kristian Tindvik (Kristiansand, Norway), Dag Holen (Kristiansand, Norway) and Ivar Magnus Jansen (Sogne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerboard includes a first finger and a second finger that are laterally offset from one another. A slot is defined between the first and second fingers. The fingerboard also includes a latch coupled to the first finger and configured to actuate from an open latch position into a closed latch position, and a pa...