ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,370, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Drilling control system" was invented by Mohammed Murif Al-Rubaii (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving real-time drilling data of a drilling operation of drilling a wellbore in a formation, the drilling operation performed by a drilling system; calculating, based on the drilling data, a plurality of parameters of the drilling operation, the plurality of parameters comprising: an equivalent circulating density of fluid in the well...