US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 23 for "Drilling control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,928, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Drilling control" was invented by Nathaniel Wicks (Katy, Texas), Yingwei Yu (Katy, Texas), Richard John Meehan (Houston) and Darine Mansour (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes issuing control instructions by a controller to control rig equipment for drilling of a borehole in a subsurface environment, where the controller includes a tunable weight-on-bit set point control loop; during the drilling, receiving sensor data as feedback; dynamically determining a tuning parameter value for the tunable weight-on-bit set poin...