ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,732, issued on May 13, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Drilling control" was invented by Nathaniel Wicks (Katy, Texas), Yingwei Yu (Katy, Texas), Richard John Meehan (Houston) and Darine Mansour (Katy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving sensor data; determining a rate of penetration drilling parameter value using a trained neural network and at least a portion of the sensor data; and issuing a control instruction for drilling a borehole using the determined rate of penetration drilling parameter value."
The patent was filed on June 15, 2021, under Application No. 1...