ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,928, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Processes for injection of fluids into a wellbore via drill pipe" was invented by Francois-Xavier Dubost (Paris), Magdy Samir Osman (Bucharest, Romania), Ashers Partouche (Katy, Texas), Morten Kristensen (Lysaker, Norway), Hadrien Dumont (Paris) and Adriaan Gerard Gisolf (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for injection of fluids into a wellbore via drill pipe. In some embodiments, the process can include positioning a downhole apparatus on a drill pipe. The process can also include placing the downhole apparatus at ...