US Patent Issued to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL on March 31 for "System and method for determining placement of a downhole device" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,534, issued on March 31, was assigned to SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL INC. (Houston).

"System and method for determining placement of a downhole device" was invented by Joshua Wilson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data from a well survey includes information on wellbore depth in combination with inclination and azimuth or bending moment taken at measured depth intervals with sufficient short spans to detect micro doglegs in a wellbore over lengths less than, for example, thirty meters. A conversion quantifies micro dogleg severity detected for expression in units of degrees per standardized set length. The converted qu...