ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,994, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Drilling control" was invented by Yingwei Yu (Katy, Texas), Velizar Vesselinov (Sugar Land, Texas), Richard Meehan (Houston), Qiuhua Liu (Houston), Wei Chen (Houston), Minh Trang Chau (Sugar Land, Texas), Yuelin Shen (Houston) and Sylvain Chambon (Clamart, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving sensor data during drilling of a portion of a borehole in a geologic environment. The system and method also include selecting a drilling mode from a plurality of drilling modes based at least on a portion of th...