US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 21 for "Method for designing, monitoring, and updating trajectories with collision avoidance" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,099, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method for designing, monitoring, and updating trajectories with collision avoidance" was invented by Peng Jin (Beijing), Qing Liu (Beijing), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Samba Ba (Houston), Tao Yu (Beijing), Can Jin (Beijing), Magnus A. Hedlund (Houston), Jinsoo Kim (Houston), Prateek Goel (Houston) and Darine Mansour (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing, monitoring, and updating a trajectory of a wellbore at a wellsite. The method includes receiving a plurality of inputs related to the trajectory for the wellbore. The inputs...