ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,072, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Geosteering control framework" was invented by Zhenhua Li (Singapore), Joseph Gremillion (Sugar Land, Texas), Farid Toghi (Clamart, France), Fei Wang (Tianjin, China) and Chao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving data acquired by a downhole tool of a tool string disposed at least in part in a borehole in a subsurface region; predicting a position of a formation top in the subsurface region using a trained machine learning model and at least a portion of the data; and controlling operation of the t...