US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on April 21 for "Autonomous steering for directional drilling with collision avoidance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,111, issued on April 21, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Autonomous steering for directional drilling with collision avoidance" was invented by Shashishekara Sitharamar Tayla (Houston), Pete L. Schiermeier (Houston) and Aniket Sanyal (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an automated method and autonomous steering system that automates and integrates a collision avoidance process and subsequent corrective action. The autonomous steering system implements an anti-collision (AC) method that provides collision avoidance by identifying collision risks with one or more hazards. In on...