ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,059, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Wellbore surveying using a tilted survey sensor" was invented by Alexander Hickson (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Makito Katayama (Clamart, France) and Edward Richards (Cheltenham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for surveying a wellbore includes rotating a downhole tool having a tilted survey sensor in the wellbore. The tilted survey sensor has a sensory axis that is rotationally offset from a longitudinal axis of the downhole tool and is used to make sensor measurements while rotating the downhole tool in the wellbore. The...