US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for heave compensation" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,635, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for heave compensation" was invented by James Philip Belaskie (Houston), Nathaniel Wicks (Cambridge, Mass.) and Xianxiang Huang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position manager may receive time-based block position data of a travelling block above a drill floor on a floating drill rig, wherein the time-based block position data is received from a block position sensor on the drill floor. A position manager may apply a changepoint model to the time-based block position data to separate the time-based block positi...