US Patent Issued to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS on June 3 for "Method of measurement near-bit magnetic compass reading interference from a downhole component" (German, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,643, issued on June 3, was assigned to BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Method of measurement near-bit magnetic compass reading interference from a downhole component" was invented by Alexey Bondarenko (Novosibirsk, Russia), Gunnar Tackmann (Lower Saxony, Germany), Dominik Hoheisel (Lower Saxony, Germany) and Veronica Vanessa Herrera Bano (Niedersachsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system includes a method of determining an orientation of a drill string in a borehole. Sensor readings of a magnetic field of a drill bit are obtained at a plurality of positions along a curve extending around the dril...