ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,179, issued on April 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Intelligent power management system" was invented by Mateo Garcia (Houston), Shunfeng Zheng (Katy, Texas) and Seetharam Kothuru (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining, from a digital drilling program and by a drilling management network, a drilling operation sequence of the drilling rig. The drilling management network is coupled to a drilling rig, rig equipment, and various electric power generators. The method may further include determining, by the drilling management network, a power management sequen...