ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,293, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Coring tools having coring shafts with associated internal static sleeves" was invented by Amol Bhome (Richmond, Texas), Mark Milkovisch (Cypress, Texas), Daniel G. De La Garza (Alvin, Texas), Joseph Matthew Casassa (Needville, Texas), Lijun Song (Sugar Land, Texas), Is Haq Mohsin Shaikh (Pune, India), Swapnil Barathe (Pune, India), Christopher Leake (Sugar Land, Texas), Charles Haddad (Kristiansand, Norway) and Viraj Singh (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods presented herein include a sidewall coring tool assembly ...