ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,359, issued on July 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Updated steering pad control device" was invented by Lizheng Zhang (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary steerable drilling system can be positioned in a subterranean formation to steer a drill to form a wellbore in the subterranean formation. An orientation of a steering valve, which is positioned in the rotary steerable drilling system, can be adjusted to cover each channel of one or more channels of a valve seat adjacent the steering valve to deactivate each steering pad of one or more steering pads of the rotary steerable drilling system...