US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 19 for "Machine learning assessment of autonomous drill bit hard face quality" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,948, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Machine learning assessment of autonomous drill bit hard face quality" was invented by Kishore Mulchandani (Menlo Park, Calif.), Crispin Chatar (Katy, Texas) and Ronda Shepherd (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a three-dimensional scan of a coating that coats an object. The coating and the object, in combination, have a shape. The method also includes flattening the three-dimensional scan to generate flattened data. Flattening includes conforming scan data in the three-dimensional scan to zone data for zones of...