ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,562, issued on April 22, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Closed loop fully autonomous directional drilling" was invented by Min Wu (Houston), Cili Sun (Houston), Robert Alan Friedrich (Houston), Ketan C. Bhaidasna (Houston), Bipin K. Pillai (Houston), Fernando Costa Oliveira Chagas (Houston), Vy Pho (Houston) and Nazli Demirer (Tomball, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for controlling a wellbore drilling apparatus where the system may include a surface controller and a downhole controller. In certain instances, control of...