US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods to determine the steering of a bit" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,950, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods to determine the steering of a bit" was invented by Yang Liu (Singapore), Julien Christian Marck (Houston), Kaixiao Tian (Singapore), Kennedy J. Kirkhope (Houston), Ketan C. Bhaidasna (Houston) and John R. Hardin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to determine the steering of a bit. The method includes receiving input parameters associated with a model of a bottomhole assembly having a housing and a shaft that runs through an interior of the housing. The method also incl...