ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,553, issued on July 15, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Service improvements using adaptive models derived from classified vibration mechanisms" was invented by Reena Agarwal Chanpura (Houston), Ketan C. Bhaidasna (Houston) and Jeremy Greenwood (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a solution to problems associated with vibrations during drilling by applying metrics on post job data and providing inputs from past experiences to pre-job planning for drilling jobs. The vibration information and analysis can also be used during a current drilling operation wherein a vibration source...