US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 27 for "Approaches to directional drilling" (British, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,933, issued on May 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Approaches to directional drilling" was invented by Samba Ba (Beijing), Lu Jiang (Beijing), Adrien Chassard (Houston), Magnus Hedlund (Houston), Maja Ignova (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Katharine Mantle (Stonehouse, Great Britain), Jinsoo Kim (Houston), Tao Yu (Beijing), Farid Toghi (Beijing), Hendrik Suryadi (Beijing), Qing Liu (Beijing) and Diego Medina (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving data for a bottom hole assembly of a drillstring and a drill plan; generating candidate trajectories using at least a por...