US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "Terminal modules for downhole formation testing tools" (American, Czech, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,961, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Terminal modules for downhole formation testing tools" was invented by Miroslav Slapal (Hodonin, Czech Republic), Christopher Albert Babin (Waveland, Miss.), Daniel Palmer (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Kai Hsu (Sugar Land, Texas), Anthony Robert Holmes Goodwin (Sugar Land, Texas), Julian Pop (Houston), Nathan Mathew Landsiedel (Sugar Land, Texas) and Adriaan Gisolf (Ilvof, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation. The method includes operating a pump m...