ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,715, issued on April 22, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Multi-level well design validator" was invented by Eric Jonathan Schoen (Bellaire, Texas), Lucian Johnston (Sugar Land, Texas) and Mark S. Passolt (Hansville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing a well, including: determining a first well construction discipline for a first participant and an authority level for the first participant within the first well construction discipline; obtaining a plurality of rules corresponding to the first well construction discipline and the authority level for the first participant withi...