US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Antenna shield for electromagnetic logging tool" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,311, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Antenna shield for electromagnetic logging tool" was invented by Mark Frey (Sugar Land, Texas), Anatoly Dementyev (Sugar Land, Texas) and Dean Homan (Damon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shield for deployment about an antenna on an electromagnetic logging tool includes an electrically conductive, hollow body configured for coaxial deployment about the antenna. The hollow body includes a plurality of slots that extend through the hollow body. An outer surface of the hollow body includes at least one recess, at least a portion of which ex...