US Patent Issued to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES on March 4 for "Methods and systems for drilling" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,359, issued on March 4, was assigned to HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Methods and systems for drilling" was invented by Angus Lamberton Jamieson (Inverness, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of controlling drilling operations including Sliding With Indexing For Toolface (SWIFT) and Variable Weight Drilling (VWD) techniques. The methods and systems may include systems and devices for controlling the drilling operations, including systems and devices capable of automatically determining drilling parameters and setting operating parameters for drilling in a wellbore. The systems and m...