ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,156, issued on July 22, was assigned to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Apparatus and methods for controlling drilling" was invented by Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain), Teddy Chen (Austin, Texas), Stephane Menand (Houston), Kyle Mcintire (Dallas) and Mohammed Mahjoub (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling control system may access a drilling plan for a borehole comprising one or more of planned path for the borehole, drill string information, mud properties, drill bit properties, formation properties, and drill rig properties. The system may receive a plurality of operating parameter...