US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on June 24 for "System to model distributed torque, drag and friction along a string" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,725, issued on June 24, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"System to model distributed torque, drag and friction along a string" was invented by Joern Koeneke (Burgdorf, Germany), Matthew Forshaw (Celle, Germany) and Thomas Dahl (Schwuelper, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing an operation in a wellbore penetrating the earth's formation. The apparatus includes a string and a first processor. The string is disposed in the wellbore. The first processor determines, by using a first friction test at a first friction test time, a first friction parameter between a firs...