ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,525, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Drilling framework" was invented by Wei Chen (Katy, Texas), Zhengxin Zhang (Houston), Yuelin Shen (Houston), Tien Hiep Nguyen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gregory Skoff (Houston), Xianxiang Huang (Houston), Zhenyu Chen (Beijing), Tao Yu (Beijing) and Nathaniel Wicks (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating an optimal operational window (OOW) that specifies operational parameter values for drilling operations using equipment at a rig site, based on data indicative of rig state and formation characteristi...