US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on June 23 for "Systems and methods for controlling a downhole tool in a downhole environment" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,927, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for controlling a downhole tool in a downhole environment" was invented by Ekaterina Brovko (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Katharine Mantle (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Maja Ignova (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Martin Jones (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include drilling a portion of a borehole with a bottomhole assembly (BHA) including the downhole tool in an automated drilling routine. A method may include receiving, at a control unit of the BHA, a disengagement downlink communicati...