ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,986, issued on July 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Monitoring a drilling operation using artificial intelligence" was invented by Mateusz Michal Dyngosz (Houston) and Dale E. Jamison (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a drilling operation of a drilling rig includes receiving one or more parameters of a drilling operation of a drilling rig. The one or more parameters are detected by one or more sensors. The method further includes recognizing, using a trained machine-learning model, a signature in the one or more parameters; determining a corrective action based on the reco...