US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 20 for "Smart data acquisition for gyrocompass applications" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,303, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Smart data acquisition for gyrocompass applications" was invented by Arnaud Jarrot (Clamart, France), Makito Katayama (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Arnaud Croux (Paris) and Joffroy Urbain (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making gyroscopic azimuth measurements includes estimating a pitch angle and a roll angle of a gyroscopic surveying tool in a wellbore; determining a measurement duration for each of a plurality of gyroscope measurements from the estimated pitch and roll angles; making each of the plurality...