US Patent Issued to Patterson-UTI Drilling on Feb. 4 for "Method and system for stealth mode operation of a drilling rig" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,573, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. LLC (Houston).

"Method and system for stealth mode operation of a drilling rig" was invented by Marcel Snijder Van Wissenkerke (Houston), Ronald Barbee (Houston), Nathaniel Norris (Houston), Faramarz Motallebzadeh (Houston) and Johnathan Eichelman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a drilling rig (that includes electrically powered equipment) and an energy supply system (that includes a battery storage, one or more generators, and an electrical bus that powers the drilling rig) includes: determining, by the energy supply system, a power demand...