US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 20 for "Automated control of trajectory of downhole drilling" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,266, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated control of trajectory of downhole drilling" was invented by Maja Ignova (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Katharine Mantle (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Ekaterina Brovko (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Martin Jones (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for automated closed-loop control of drilling trajectory during directional drilling, which define target inclinations and/or target azimuths for a sequence of automated control loops performed over distances of measured depth during direc...