US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 7 for "Communication networks for BOP control" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,593, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp..

"Communication networks for BOP control" was invented by Vikas Rakhunde (Cypress, Texas), Dinesh Kumar Dhamodaran (Florence, Ky.), Limin Chen (Cypress, Texas), Nick Krippner (Houston), Dhinesh Prabhu Nataraja Prabu (Coimbatore, India) and Matthew Olson (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a subsea blowout preventor (BOP) includes a control system for controlling a subsea BOP of a subsea stack assembly installed over a subsea oil and gas well. The control system includes a first topside control device and a second topside contro...