ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,206, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Communicating with blowout preventer control system" was invented by Eric Ducamin (Katy, Texas) and Joergen Kringen Johnsen (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a rig control system for controlling rig equipment operable to perform drilling operations to drill a wellbore at a wellsite, wherein the rig equipment includes a drawworks for raising or lowering a drill string, a pressure control system for controlling a pressure control manifold fluidly connected with the wellbore, and a blowout preventer (BOP) control system fo...