US Patent Issued to Motive Drilling Technologies on April 21 for "Apparatus and methods for determining information from a well" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,112, issued on April 21, was assigned to Motive Drilling Technologies Inc. (Dallas).

"Apparatus and methods for determining information from a well" was invented by Todd W. Benson (Dallas) and George Michalopulos (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for drilling a well may be adapted to process signals received from a fiber optic cable located in the casing of a previously drilled well or wells. The fiber optic cable may act as a distributed sensor receiving acoustic signals generated during the drilling of the well, and the system may be programmed to process the signals from the fiber optic cable to locate the bor...