US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 23 for "Interference compensated axial magnetometer measurements" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,842, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Interference compensated axial magnetometer measurements" was invented by Makito Katayama (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Edward Richards (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making axial magnetic field measurements in a downhole tool includes evaluating axial magnetic field measurements to determine a magnetic interference offset and removing the magnetic interference offset to obtain compensated axial magnetic field measurements."

The patent was filed on May 8, 2024, under Application No. 18/657,902.

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