US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 11 for "Measuring drill pipe alignment in rotating control device system" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,039, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Measuring drill pipe alignment in rotating control device system" was invented by Rodrigo Feliu (Sugar Land, Texas), Sara Escanero (Sugar Land, Texas) and Emilio De Matias Salces (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a drill pipe and a rotating control device including a housing defining a bore through which the drill pipe extends during a managed pressure drilling operation, a sealing element disposed in the housing that is configured to seal against the drill pipe to block fluid flow through an annular space surro...