US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 12 for "Control system for automating drilling operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,381, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Control system for automating drilling operations" was invented by Moray Lamond Laing (Spring, Texas), Mahdi Parak (Katy, Texas), Nazaad Baksh (Conroe, Texas) and Andreas G. Sadlier (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating, at an IIOT device mounted to equipment of a drilling system, a relay variable, a measurement variable, or a control variable and a message having an IP address. Classifying, by application services of a cloud service provider, the relay variable, the measurement variable, or the control variable;...