US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for controlling operation of wireline cable spooling equipment" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,381, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems for controlling operation of wireline cable spooling equipment" was invented by Muhannad Abuhaikal (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Bogath (Sugar Land, Texas), Vassilis Varveropoulos (Katy, Texas) and Tianxiang Su (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling operation of equipment that spools cable on and off a rotatable drum, in one or more embodiments, includes obtaining video data of a position of the cable on the rotatable drum. The method can also include feeding data into a trained artifici...