US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Service on Oct. 7 for "Real-time formations cuttings analysis system using computer vision and machine learning approach during a drilling operation" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,385, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Service Inc. (Houston).

"Real-time formations cuttings analysis system using computer vision and machine learning approach during a drilling operation" was invented by Sakshi Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh, India), Fahad Ghayas Ahmad (Cypress, Texas), Shaun Patrick Lawrence (Spring, Texas), Howard James Neil Black (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Anita Kirsten Torr (Tomball, Texas) and Varun Tyagi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for controlling a learning machine used in a drilling operation to drill a well into a subsurface formation includes receiving,...