US Patent Issued to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES on May 6 for "Systems and methods for drilling a well" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,424, issued on May 6, was assigned to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for drilling a well" was invented by Todd Benson (Dallas), John Burkhart (Dallas) and Teddy C. Chen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system may have a drilling rig with a drill string including a BHA with a drill bit. The method may include determining a current BHA location and a future BHA location based on the current BHA location and a current trajectory of the BHA and comparing the future BHA location to a target drilling path. When the future BHA location is a predetermined distance from the target dril...