ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,049, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"System and method for preventing collisions in wellbores" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston), Hai Feng Li (Beijing), Prateek Goel (Houston), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Yang Yuan (Beijing), Chong Wei Wan (Beijing), Ying Fei Hu (Beijing), Jinsoo Kim (Houston) and Peng Jin (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing a collision of a subject wellbore in a downhole environment includes receiving offset wellbore data corresponding with one or more offset wellbores and identifying, based on the offset wellbore data, one or more no-go zone...