ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,936, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Geosteering control framework" was invented by Nestor Herman Cuevas Maldonado (Sugar Land, Texas), Geir Dahl (Stavanger, Norway) and Kent Harms (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving resistivity data acquired by a downhole tool of a drillstring disposed at least in part in a borehole in a subsurface environment, where the borehole includes a downhole end, and where the borehole defines a borehole axis; receiving seismic data for the subsurface environment, where the seismic data include spatial locatio...