ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,400, issued on March 24, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Geosteering control framework" was invented by Ziyuan Xu (Beijing), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Yansong Huang (Beijing), Zhiyi Zhang (Beijing), Farid Toghi (Clamart, France), Samba Ba (Houston), Jing Wang (Beijing), Pierre Bonningue (Lysaker, Norway), Firas Alshaikh Hasan (Sugar Land, Texas), Jinsoo Kim (Houston), Kent Harms (Sugar Land, Texas), Loic Hoarau (Sugar Land, Texas), Ruixia Liu (Beijing), Hui Wang (Beijing), Dean M. Homan (Sugar Land, Texas), Joseph Gremillion (Sugar Land, Texas), Michael Bower (Sugar Land, Texas) and Khaled El-Derini (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* re...