US Patent Issued to PASON SYSTEMS on Sept. 15 for "Controlling drilling of a wellbore based on updated bit depth" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,973, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PASON SYSTEMS CORP. (Calgary, Canada).

"Controlling drilling of a wellbore based on updated bit depth" was invented by Adam Chase Neufeldt (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of using one or more computer processors to control drilling of a wellbore. A current bit depth indicative of a depth of a drill bit being used to drill the wellbore is determined. A compression factor indicative of compression of a drill string to which is attached the drill bit is determined. Based on the current bit depth and the compression factor, the current bit depth is upda...