ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,325, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AI Fluids Ltd. (Wem, Great Britain).
"Automated fluid system" was invented by James Haughs (Shrewsbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling the composition of a drilling fluid comprises receiving measurements of properties of a drilling fluid; determining a concentration of the components of the drilling fluid by inputting the measured properties to a fluid model that relates the properties of the drilling fluid to the concentrations of each of the components; determining a desired concentration of each of the plurality of components of the drilling fluid, by in...