US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on Nov. 11 for "Wellbore trajectory control using reservoir property projection and optimization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,350, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Wellbore trajectory control using reservoir property projection and optimization" was invented by Venugopal Devarapalli (Spring, Texas), Srinath Madasu (Houston), Shashi Dande (Spring, Texas) and Keshava Prasad Rangarajan (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects and features relate to a system for trajectory planning and control for new wellbores. Data can be received for multiple existing wells associated with a subterranean reservoir and used to train a deep neural network model to make accurate well property projections at any othe...