ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,938, issued on May 26, was assigned to National Oilwell Varco LP (Houston).
"Intelligent monitoring for drilling process automation" was invented by Francisco Ocegueda-Hernandez (Houston), Christopher P. Mullin (Dallas) and Ryan J. Hanford (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimizing performance of an automated control system for drilling may include obtaining instructions to deploy a plurality of event-driven drilling activities comprising a drilling process, obtaining default parameters for a first instance of a first activity of the event-driven drilling activities, deploying the first activity of the drilling activities usin...