US Patent Issued to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for oilfield drilling operations using computer vision" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,040, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for oilfield drilling operations using computer vision" was invented by George Michalopulos (Tulsa, Okla.), Richard Kulavik (Frisco, Texas) and Todd W. Benson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer vision drilling systems and methods may be used with a drilling rig. The computer vision systems and methods may be used during drilling of a well to monitor the drilling equipment and personnel on the drilling site to provide safer drilling operations. The results from the computer vision drilling system may be used to cause c...