ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,972, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Approaches to generating records about wellsite events" was invented by Rafael Guedes de Carvalho (Katy, Texas) and Diego Fernando Patino Virano (Doha, Qatar).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system includes a knowledge manager that monitors drilling information for the drilling system. The knowledge manager identifies a trigger event based on drilling information that is outside of a threshold range of values for the drilling information. The trigger event is based a knowledge type. The knowledge manager prepares a mitigation action...