US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 11 for "Automated slide detection using both surface torque and surface RPM for directional drilling applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,475, issued on March 11, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated slide detection using both surface torque and surface RPM for directional drilling applications" was invented by Hussein Sahli (Houston) and Samba Ba (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at least one drilling condition input from at least one sensor of a drilling rig, obtaining a first slide mode determination based at least partially on a rotational speed of a drill string, obtaining a second slide mode determination based at least partially on torque applied to the drill string, selecting one of...