ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,936, issued on May 27, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Method for improved drilling performance and preserving bit conditions utilizing real-time drilling parameters optimization" was invented by Khaled Mohamed Hamed Abdelaal (Al Khuwair, Oman).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of optimizing a design of a wellbore drilling operation based on at least one set of offset well data. A drilling path record for each offset well comprises a set of drilling parameters separated into depth segments. An optimization process determines a drilling dysfunction for each set of drilling parameter by comparing the d...