ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,153, issued on July 22, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Well construction equipment framework" was invented by Gregory Michael Skoff (Cambridge, Great Britain), Crispin Chatar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Velizar Vesselinov (Sugar Land, Texas), Cheolkyun Jeong (Sugar Land, Texas), Fatma Mahfoudh (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sergey Makarychev-Mikhailov (Cambridge, Great Britain), Oleh Petryshak (Poltava, Ukraine), Yezid Arevalo Romero (Katy, Texas), Yingwei Yu (Katy, Texas) and Georgia Kouyialis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving input for a drilling operation that utili...