US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Processing of directional survey data recorded during rotational drilling" (German, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,832, issued on March 3, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Processing of directional survey data recorded during rotational drilling" was invented by Gunnar Tackmann (Hannover, Germany), Kai Karvinen (Hannover, Germany), Veronica Vanessa Herrera Bano (Celle, Germany), Daniel Herrera Anda (Celle, Germany), Morten Gjertsen (Stavanger, Norway) and Steffen Schulze (Celle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for obtaining a directional survey in a rotating downhole component include acquiring and generating, while rotating, sets of raw data having 3-axis magnetic field data and 3-axis gravity field ...