ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,152, issued on July 22, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Well construction workstation and control" was invented by Paal Gundersen (Kristiansand, Norway) and Anstein Jorud (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for performing well construction control. An example apparatus may be or include a control system operable to control a well construction system for performing well construction operations at an oil/gas wellsite, wherein the well construction system includes multiple pieces of equipment. The control system may have a processor and memory storing a computer ...