US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 14 for "Devices, systems, and methods for mitigating downhole motor dysfunction" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,249, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Devices, systems, and methods for mitigating downhole motor dysfunction" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Milton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system may determine a change in motor torque and/or a pressure drop of a downhole motor based on a flow of a drilling fluid through the downhole motor. The drilling system may determine a change in bit torque of a bit with respect to a change in a weight on bit of the bit. Based at least in part on the change in motor pressure and the change in bit torque of the bit ...