US Patent Issued to Helmerich & Payne Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for bottom hole assembly selection" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,810, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Helmerich & Payne Technologies LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Methods and systems for bottom hole assembly selection" was invented by Stephane Menand (Houston) and Mohamed Mahjoub (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include a computing device receiving a drill plan for the borehole. The drill plan can include survey information providing formation information for one or more sections of the borehole. The method can include accessing a plurality of capability data for one or more bottom hole assemblies that may include: a neutral capability score, a steering capacity score, and a sl...