ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,474, issued on March 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).
"Automated vertical-curve-lateral drilling" was invented by Nazli Demirer (Houston) and Robert P. Darbe (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include dividing a wellplan into one or more section using a section detection algorithm, receiving a depth measurement of a drill bit or a bottom hole assembly located in a wellbore, utilizing the section detection algorithm and the depth measurement to identify a section of the wellplan from the one or more sections of the wellplan, and identifying a target based at least in part on the identi...