US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 30 for "Automated identification and quantification of solid drilling fluid additives" (American, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,886, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated identification and quantification of solid drilling fluid additives" was invented by Reda Karoum (Houston), Steven Young (Cypress, Texas), Karim Bondabou (Montpellier, France), Maneesh Pisharat (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Tetsushi Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating solid drilling fluid additives such as lost cuttings materials (LCM) includes acquiring a calibrated digital image of solid particles separated from drilling fluid circulating in a wellbore. The calibrated digital image is p...