US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Cuttings imaging for determining geological properties" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,137, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cuttings imaging for determining geological properties" was invented by Simone Di Santo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital image processing a digital image of sample drill cuttings retrieved from a geological formation and related methods include identifying individual zones in the image that depict at least a predetermined minimum heterogeneity of a first physical property, extracting particles in each identified zone that depict a second physical property within a predetermined quantitative range, and measuring a th...