ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,873, issued on Aug. 5.
"System and method for continuous wellbore surveying" was invented by Samuel Mark Haugland (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides non-transitory computer-readable media and systems are suitable for evaluating a dynamic wellbore azimuth and inclination measurement based on measurements acquired by a downhole tool capable of acquiring accelerometer (gravity) and magnetic field measurements representative of the earth's gravitational and magnetic fields. These non-transitory computer-readable media and systems can also be used for evaluating static inclination and azimuth measurem...