US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on April 15 for "Optimizing drilling parameters for controlling a wellbore drilling operation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,188, issued on April 15, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Optimizing drilling parameters for controlling a wellbore drilling operation" was invented by Abhishek Agrawal (Karnataka, India), Shang Zhang (Fulshear, Texas) and Robello Samuel (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive input data indicating a current state of a wellbore drilling operation. The system can determine, by a set of software applications, constraints associated with the wellbore drilling operation. The system can optimize, by an optimization model and using the input data, a drilling parameter subject to the constraints...