US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 15 for "Displaying steering response with uncertainty in a heat map ellipse" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,552, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Displaying steering response with uncertainty in a heat map ellipse" was invented by Samba Ba (Houston), Conie Chiock (Katy, Texas), Ginger Hildebrand (Houston) and Maurice Ringer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving a drilling trajectory plan to drill an intended trajectory. The system and method also include analyzing the drilling trajectory plan and identifying a tool face orientation to drill the intended trajectory based on the drilling trajectory plan. The system and method additionally includ...