ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,339, issued on June 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Automated cluster selection for downhole geosteering applications" was invented by Hsu-Hsiang Wu (Houston), Ting Yan (Houston), Li Pan (Houston) and Huiwen Sheng (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for geosteering inversion are provided. Downhole tool responses are predicted for different points along a planned path of a wellbore during a downhole operation, based on each of a plurality of inversion models. Measurements of the downhole tool's actual responses are obtained as the wellbore is drilled over the different points durin...