US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on June 3 for "Steering actuation feedback for a rotary steerable system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,256, issued on June 3, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Steering actuation feedback for a rotary steerable system" was invented by Maja Ignova (Stonehouse, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for drilling a subterranean wellbore includes rotating a bottom hole assembly (BHA) in the wellbore to drill. The BHA includes a rotary steerable tool or a steerable drill bit having at least one external pad that extends radially outward into contact with a wall of the wellbore and thereby steers while drilling. A toolface demand is received and processed to compute open and close toolface ang...