ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,527, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Rotary steerable system advisor with autonomous mode" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston) and Juan Carlos Fernandez (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for steering a downhole tool to drill a wellbore in a subterranean formation includes receiving an initial wellbore plan for the downhole tool to drill through the subterranean formation. The method also includes receiving drilling data while the downhole tool is drilling through the subterranean formation using the initial wellbore plan. The method also includes comparing the ini...