US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on Dec. 16 for "Steering device, method and system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,836, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Steering device, method and system" was invented by Volker Peters (Niedersachsen, Germany), Andreas Peter (Celle, Germany), Christian Fulda (Lower Saxony, Germany), Tim Mueller (Burgwedel, Germany), Ingo Roders (Seelze, Germany) and Olaf Gaertner (Isernhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system configured to drill a borehole into a subsurface formation, including a steering device. The steering device is configured to convey a fluid supply through a valve to an outside surface of the steering device, wherein the fluid flow ca...