ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,166, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Multi-domain planning controller for drilling operations" was invented by Daniel Abad (Sugar Land, Texas), Qiuhua Liu (Houston) and Rustam Isangulov (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include, in a runtime environment of compiled multi-domain code for multiple different domains that describe physical operations performed using equipment, responsive to input, issuing a call to a planning domain definition language planner; responsive to the call, receiving a plan that includes at least one action; and dispatching at least one ...