US Patent Issued to Bench Tree Group on May 19 for "System and method of triggering, acquiring and communicating borehole data for a MWD system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,107, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bench Tree Group LLC (Georgetown, Texas).

"System and method of triggering, acquiring and communicating borehole data for a MWD system" was invented by Aubrey Holt (Georgetown, Texas), Michael Brownlow (Georgetown, Texas) and Greg Hill (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transmitting drilling data by downhole computer system of a MWD system of a drilling rig, including a method comprising: instructing a transmitter to transmit to a surface computer system a first data stream including drilling data; detecting a trigger event in the MWD system; interrupting transm...