US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 4 for "Approaches to directional drilling" (British, Chinese, American, Emirati, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,528, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Approaches to directional drilling" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Adrien Chassard (Houston), Magnus Hedlund (Houston), Maja Ignova (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Katharine Mantle (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Jinsoo Kim (Houston), Tao Yu (Beijing), Farid Toghi (Clamart, France), Hendrik Suryadi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Qing Liu (Beijing) and Diego Medina (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving a well plan and determining a plurality of sections of the well plan and recei...