ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,714, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Intellicess Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Cleansing of drilling sensor readings" was invented by Adrian Marius Ambrus (Stavanger, Norway) and Pradeepkumar Ashok (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drilling rig operations may be monitored using a variety of sensors and/or other data sources. Erroneous, faulty, and/or missing data may be cleansed prior to using the data for modeling and/or monitoring drilling operations. Erroneous, faulty, and/or missing data may be identified by comparing received data to anticipated values based on historical operations, other physically related sensor readi...