ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,355, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Conveyance apparatus, systems, and methods" was invented by Julien Toniolo (Sugar Land, Texas), Dustin Cavin (Houston) and Firas Al Shaikh Hasan (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtain formation evaluation data that includes deploying an evaluation tool string into a drill string located in a wellbore. The method can also include landing the evaluation tool string in a portion of the drill string that is configured to optimize formation evaluation using the evaluation tool located therein."
The patent was filed on...