ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,248, issued on April 14, was assigned to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Systems and methods for drilling" was invented by Fergus Hopwood (Whitefish, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated slide drilling system (ASDS) may be used with a drilling rig system to control slide drilling. The ASDS may autonomously control slide drilling without user input during the slide drilling. The ASDS may further support a transition from rotary drilling to slide drilling to rotary drilling without user input during the transitions. The operations can include receiving a first orientation of a drill string from a top d...