ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,949, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Drilling control" was invented by Richard Meehan (Houston) and James Belaskie (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that include receiving an initial on-bottom signal that is indicative of an on-bottom state. The system and method also include receiving data indicative of a block position of the block for an in-slips state and a block position for going to an out-of-slips state of a rig. The system and method additionally include receiving data indicative of slips status of slips of the rig that is indicative of in-slips o...