ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,812, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for logging while drilling and optimized telemetry using artifical intelligence" was invented by Klemens Katterbauer (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdallah A. AlShehri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ali Abdallah AlYousef (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Shouxiang Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, with an edge computing device disposed in a bottom hole assembly of a drilling system, logging while drilling data. The method further includes determining, with the edge computing device, at lea...