ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,727, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Drilling event detection" was invented by Dale E. Jamison (Houston), Andrew Vos (Houston) and Mateusz Michal Dyngosz (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of methods and apparatus are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, detecting a drilling event, involving flowing a drilling fluid from a wellbore being drilled through a separator, removing rock cuttings from the drilling fluid by the separator, discharging the drilling fluid from the separator without the rock cuttings removed to a mud pit, measuring a first viscosity of the drilling ...