US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for trajectory control in a downhole environment" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,288, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for trajectory control in a downhole environment" was invented by Maja Ignova (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Ekaterina Brovko (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Martin Jones (Gloucester, Great Britain) and Katharine Mantle (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole tool may store a well plan on a hardware storage device of a downhole tool. A downhole tool may drill a first portion of a borehole according to a first stage of the well plan with the downhole tool. A downhole tool may change at least one of a ...