US Patent Issued to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "System and method for determining the location of a bottom hole assembly" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,730, issued on April 7, was assigned to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas).

"System and method for determining the location of a bottom hole assembly" was invented by Todd W. Benson (Dallas) and Teddy C. Chen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for determining an updated location of a bottom hole assembly (BHA) during drilling of a well are provided. During drilling, a computer system may receive tool face updates and may determine build rate estimates and a borehole depth increase during a toolface update period. The computer system may also calculate an updated estimate of the borehole position."...