US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods to perform automated drilling" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,203, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods to perform automated drilling" was invented by Shahin Tasoujian (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuanyan Chen (Houston), Khunsa Hisham (Houston), Vy Pho (Houston), Ketan C. Bhaidasna (Houston) and Robert P. Darbe (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to perform automated drilling for both surface and downhole control. The method includes receiving a curvature reference set point, and calculating a curvature error with respect to the curvature reference set point. The method also includes...