ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,398, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MONTANUNIVERSITAT LEOBEN (Leoben, Austria).
"Detecting downhole drilling events" was invented by Asad Elmgerbi (Leoben, Austria) and Gerhard Thonhauser (Trofaiach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for detecting a downhole drilling event during a drilling operation by a drill pipe being partially surrounded by a tubular, wherein the arrangement comprises a sensors holder to be mounted inside of the tubular and to be mounted to surround part of the drill pipe, a plurality of sensors for sensing sensor data indicative of downhole drilling events, wherein at least part of the s...