ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,934, issued on May 27, was assigned to Chengdu University of Technology (Chengdu, China).

"Wireless remote control method and system for controllable rotary sliding guiding drilling" was invented by Jianguo Zhao (Chengdu, China), Qingyou Liu (Chengdu, China), Haiyan Zhu (Chengdu, China), Guorong Wang (Chengdu, China), Jie Zeng (Chengdu, China), Xu Luo (Chengdu, China), Xuecheng Dong (Chengdu, China) and Xingming Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a wireless remote control method and system for controllable rotary sliding guiding drilling. An upper end of a controllable rotary sliding guiding drilling me...