US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Method for tool face angle control for rotary steerable drilling system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,360, issued on July 7.

"Method for tool face angle control for rotary steerable drilling system" was invented by Sylvain Bedouet (Houston) and Karim Boudah (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the tool face angle of a rotary steerable system inside a well. The tool face angle is mainly controlled through the determination of the duty cycle of an AC Machine, producing its torque. The controlling duty cycle of the AC Machine is determined through the summing of a duty cycle set point with one or more duty cycle corrective values, using a Pulse Width Modulation technique. The duty cycle corrective values u...