US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 14 for "Drilling operations framework" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,440, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Drilling operations framework" was invented by Sreelekshmi Jayalekshmi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Sai Venkatakrishnan Sankaranarayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include acquiring real-time data during rig operations that include rig operations for drilling a borehole in a subsurface geologic region using a drillstring that includes a drill bit, where the drillstring includes connected stands of drill pipe, and where the real-time data include a measured post-connection hook load value; predicting...