ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,818, issued on June 24, was assigned to DWA CONSULTANTS-FZCO (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

"Use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in existing data sets to plan for future plug and abandon, re-use and decommissioning activities" was invented by David Macneill (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Nigel M. Lakey (Houston) and Callaghan Keith Wilmott (Alberta, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining one or more attributes in relation to transitional activities for a client well are provided. Embodiments include receiving structured data and unstructured data related to a well from one or more data source...