US Patent Issued to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES on April 14 for "Apparatus and methods for controlling drilling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,225, issued on April 14, was assigned to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Apparatus and methods for controlling drilling" was invented by William Edward Weideman (Arlington, Texas), Jefferson Xu (Southlake, Texas) and John Jeremy Cantwell (Fredericksburg, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autotuner control system may be implemented to monitor and control operation of a drilling system and one or more drilling parameters during drilling operations. The control system may be a proportional integral derivative (PID) controller or a proportional integral (PI) controller, which can run iteratively during drilling...