US Patent Issued to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Apparatus and methods for controlling drilling" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,939, issued on May 26, was assigned to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Apparatus and methods for controlling drilling" was invented by Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain), Teddy Chen (Austin, Texas), Stephane Menand (Houston), Kyle Mcintire (Dallas) and Mohammed Mahjoub (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling control system may receive a target toolface and rate of penetration (ROP) and receive a first toolface and ROP. The system may calculate a toolface error based at least in part on a difference between the target and first toolface and calculate a ROP error based at least in part on a...