US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 2 for "Rig state detection using video data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,370, issued on June 2, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Rig state detection using video data" was invented by Laetitia Shao (Menlo Park, Calif.), Suhas Suresha (Menlo Park, Calif.), Indranil Roychoudhury (Menlo Park, Calif.), Crispin Chatar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Soumya Gupta (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jose Celaya Galvan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving training images representing a portion of a drilling rig over a first period of time, associating individual training images of the training images with times at which the individual training images were capt...