US Patent Issued to Magnetic Variation Services on Sept. 9 for "Method of drilling a wellbore to a target" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,700, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Magnetic Variation Services LLC (Denver).

"Method of drilling a wellbore to a target" was invented by Stefan Maus (Boulder, Colo.), Marc Ernest Willerth (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and Jarrod Shawn Deverse (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of drilling a wellbore to a target includes measuring attitudes at two adjacent survey stations along a wellbore using a downhole surveying tool. An actual change in wellbore position over a survey leg linking the two survey stations is determined. Corrections are applied to the measured attitude at one or both of the survey sta...