US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 21 for "Identification and mitigation of whirl within a drilling system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,101, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Identification and mitigation of whirl within a drilling system" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Spyridon Joseph Kotsonis (Sugar Land, Texas) and Ross Lowdon (Stonehouse, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Whirl in a drilling system may be identified and mitigated by monitoring signals from a plurality of sensors positioned at various axial locations along a drill string of the drilling system, determining a respective frequency component and a respective amplitude component for each of the signals,...