ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,785, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Predictive models and multi-objective constraint optimization algorithm to optimize drilling parameters of a wellbore" was invented by Gulshan Singh (Lower Saxony, Germany), Franck Kpetehoto (Spring, Texas), Christian Herbig (Lower Saxony, Germany), Thorsten Krueger (Lower Saxony, Germany) and John Macpherson (Lower Saxony, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable medium performs a method for performing a drilling operation in a formation. A plurality of predictive models are determined. Each predictive model of the plurality of...