US Patent Issued to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 13 for "Systems and methods for controlling a drilling path based on drift estimates" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,736, issued on May 13, was assigned to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas) and BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for controlling a drilling path based on drift estimates" was invented by Todd W. Benson (Dallas), Teddy Chen (Austin, Texas) and Sashmit Bhaduri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a drilling system, a control system coupled to a drilling rig controls a bottom hole assembly (BHA) to drill a borehole through a geological formation along a drilling path. The control system determines a present position of the BHA and calculates a toolface vector to cre...