US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods to monitor operabilty of an actuator of a rotatable steerable system (RSS)" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,076, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods to monitor operabilty of an actuator of a rotatable steerable system (RSS)" was invented by Stuart Alan Kolbe (Stonehouse, Great Britain) and Denis Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a rotatable steerable system (RSS) of a drilling system. The RSS includes a first steering pad, a first fluid actuator coupled to the first steering pad, a first vent passage coupled to the first fluid actuator, a first valve coupled to the first fluid actuator, and a first pressure sensor coupled to the first fluid ac...