ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,042, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Planning and deploying multiple assets for projects" was invented by Pontus Loviken (Palaiseau, France) and Peter Gregory (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, via one or more processors, a first dataset associated with a plurality of projects that corresponds to performing hydrocarbon exploration or processing operations. The method may then involve receiving a second dataset associated with a plurality of assets, such that at least a portion of the plurality of assets is used to complete at ...