US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 19 for "Drilling framework" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,105, issued on May 19, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Drilling framework" was invented by Xin Li (Montpellier, France), Lei Zhu (Beijing), Bo Bi (Beijing), Chao Mu (Beijing), Tao Yu (Beijing) and Kewen Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a digital well plan that specifies planned drilling parameters for drilling a borehole, where each of the specified planned drilling parameters includes one or more of a minimum threshold and a maximum threshold; generating statistical distributions of actual drilling parameters in real-time responsive to receipt of real-time ...