ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,727, issued on April 7, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automatic interpretation of drilling dynamics data" was invented by Wei Chen (Houston), Yingwei Yu (Katy, Texas), Yuelin Shen (Houston), Zhengxin Zhang (Houston) and Velizar Vesselinov (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving drilling dynamics data simulated by a processor and drilling dynamics data collected by a sensor positioned in a drilling tool and extracting a feature map based on a combination of the drilling dynamics data simulated by the processor and the drilling dynamics data collected by t...