ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,233, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ERDOS MILLER INC. (Houston).

"Enhanced measurement-while-drilling decoding using artificial intelligence" was invented by Kenneth Miller (Houston), David Erdos (Houston) and Abraham Erdos (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for using a trained machine learning model to classify mud pulse signals. The method may include receiving a mud pulse signal from a measurement while drilling (MVWD) tool, wherein the mud pulse signal includes data. The method may also include decoding, using the trained machine learning model, the data to determine a value of ...