US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Sept. 30 for "Wellbore trajectory model calibration for directional drilling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,948, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Wellbore trajectory model calibration for directional drilling" was invented by Umut Zalluhoglu (Humble, Texas), Nazli Demirer (Houston), Julien Christian Valery Marck (Houston) and Robert Darbe (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more sensors are positioned downhole in a wellbore of a geological formation. One or more survey directional measurements associated with the wellbore are performed and one or more continuous directional measurements associated with the wellbore are performed. A wellbore trajectory model projects a traje...