ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,354, issued on Dec. 23.
"Method for predicting and optimizing penetration rate in oil and gas drilling based on cart algorithm" was invented by Xiangchao Shi (Chengdu, China), Ergang Zhang (Chengdu, China), Quan Cao (Chengdu, China), Shan Jiang (Chengdu, China), Yuehao Liu (Chengdu, China) and Yuming Wang (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for predicting and optimizing a penetration rate in oil and gas drilling based on a CART algorithm. The method provided by the present invention can shorten the drilling cycle and reduce the drilling cost, thereby greatly improving the developme...